Abstract: A mobile and adaptable fitness system allows a fitness device to be used to control an application running on a host device. The system includes one or more controllers, a motion sensing device, and a host device. The hand controllers may be mounted on the handlebars of the fitness device or held in a user's hands and include buttons that the user can press. The motion sensing device may be mounted on the user or on a moving part of the fitness device and contains sensors that capture motion performed by the user. The host device receives input data from the hand controllers and the motion sensing device and generates an activity vector representing the intensity at which the user performs a fitness activity. Based on the activity vector, the host device controls an object in an application, such as a character, based on the input data.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for determining a communication mode for recording a media message on a communication device is provided. An adaptive recording application detects activation of an interface element, for example, a push or a touch of a button on the communication device and determines duration of the activation of the interface element. The adaptive recording application, in response to the detection of the activation of the interface element, selects a communication mode, for example, a push to talk communication mode, a tap to start communication mode, etc., based on a comparison of the duration of the activation of the interface element with one or more configurable timing parameters and/or a determination of a presence or an absence of a media signal during and/or after the activation of the interface element. The adaptive recording application initiates recording of the media message in the selected communication mode.

Abstract: A method for interactive video content is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first video program stream from a first content provider server; displaying the first video program stream received from the first content provider server; displaying an on-screen tracking overlay selector, the on-screen tracking overlay selector including one or more selectable buttons, the one or more selectable buttons including a first selectable button associated with information from one or more third-party providers; receiving a second video program stream from a second content provider server, the second video program stream including embedded overlay content associated with the first selectable button from the at least one of the one or more third-party service providers; and displaying the second video program stream including the embedded overlay content associated with first selectable button from the at least one of the one or more third-party providers.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving first and second movement data corresponding to a movement of a first and second computer mouse, respectively, wherein the first and second computer mice are oriented in a same direction are moving in unison over a same trajectory while the first and second movement data is contemporaneously received; determining a movement distance for the first and second computer mice based on the first and second movement data, respectively; determining a performance characteristic for the first computer mouse based on the determined first movement distance; determining the performance characteristic for the second computer mouse based on the determined second movement distance; determining a difference in the performance characteristic for the first computer mouse with respect to the second computer mouse; and calibrating the performance characteristic of the second computer mouse to match the performance characteristic of the first computer mouse.

Abstract: An innovative palmrest assembly for a computer has fewer components and reduces costs. The palmrest assembly has a cover that holds a tactile pointing device (such as a touch/click pad). The cover, though, is integrally molded with a holder for the tactile pointing device. The cover thus includes a molded pocket or recess into which the tactile pointing device is inserted, perhaps in a snap-fit arrangement. Because the tactile pointing device snuggly fits into the cover, the palmrest assembly has fewer components and fastening screws may be eliminated. Moreover, the cover may further include one or more elastomeric springs that are integrally molded with the holder for the tactile pointing device. The integrally-molded elastomeric springs further reduce componentry and eliminate complicated assembly operations. When a user taps or clicks the tactile pointing device, the elastomeric springs slightly compress and then rebound, thus providing a return motion to the tactile pointing device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing computer-generated visualization of items, including enhancing visualization of product images in a web-based augmented reality (AR) user interface, displaying elements that enable users to select AR-enabled images of products (e.g., room décor, furniture, or other products), and transmitting AR-enabled images of the products in a room to one or more distributed computer systems (e.g., in real time). These and other images may be saved or selected in the various platforms, web-based documents, or locally-run applications as AR-enabled images of products to view a set of user-selected AR-enabled images in a single view (e.g., on a web page), and, when in a room, selectively display and interact with an AR-enabled view in the room of the corresponding products from the AR-enabled images list.

Abstract: A CAD model comprises an entity comprising an input face comprising a normal direction. Via user input, a translation for the input face in the normal direction is obtained. From the CAD model, a list of faces parallel to the input face is automatically determined. From the list of faces, a snap face comprising a distance along the normal direction to the current position of the input face which is minimal over the list of faces is automatically selected, without acquiring the snap face via user input. Via a visualization means, a snap plane comprising the snap face, and either a coplanar alignment of the input face in the snap plane; or a distance indicator from the input face to the snap plane, are automatically displayed. Via user input, validation of the coplanar alignment or a numerical value for the distance indicator is obtained. The entity is automatically adjusted accordingly.

Abstract: A controller for use in interfacing with a virtual reality system is provided. The controller having a body with a proximate end and a distal end, and the distal end is opposite the proximate end. A handgrip portion of the body is disposed at the proximate end of the body. An extension portion of the body is coupled at the distal end of the body. The extension portion has a loop shape. A plurality of lights is disposed on a surface of the extension portion, such that lights illuminate at least part of the loop shape.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide content to a playback network are disclosed. An example method includes displaying an indicator of multimedia content to a user via a graphical user interface. The example method includes enabling a multiselect state to allow the user to select multiple items from a browseable list of indicators associated with multimedia content. The example method includes providing a context-sensitive menu including a plurality of options associated with playback of selected items based on enablement of the multiselect state. The example method includes applying an option to each of the selected items based on user selection. The example method includes passing information regarding the multimedia content to a playback system including one or more multimedia playback devices in response to user selection of the option.

Abstract: A computerized medical diagnostic system uses a training dataset that is updated based on reports generated by a radiologist. AI and/or CAD is used to make an initial determination of no finding, finding, or diagnosis based on the training dataset. Normal results with a high confidence of no finding are not reviewed by the radiologist. Low confidence results, findings, and diagnosis are reviewed by the radiologist. The radiologist generates a report that associates terminology and weighting with marked 3D image volumes. The report is used to update the training dataset.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for combining video and virtual reality presentations, comprising a server device running application software that receives, at a connection point, a plurality of video signals from a plurality of assets within a deployment location, a video processing facility configured to sync the plurality of video signals to generate a time-matched, unified video depiction of the deployment location, where the unified video depiction presents at least one of positions, orientations, actions or affiliations of the plurality of the assets within the deployment location, and a graphical user interface presenting a field of view of the unified video depiction of the deployment location.

Abstract: Augmented reality eyewear devices allow users to experience a version of our “real” physical world augmented with virtual objects. Augmented reality eyewear may present a user with a graphical user interface that appears to be in the airspace directly in front of the user thereby encouraging the user to interact with virtual objects in socially undesirable ways, such as by making sweeping hand gestures in the airspace in front of the user. Anchoring various input mechanisms or the graphical user interface of an augmented reality eyewear application to a wristwatch may allow a user to interact with an augmented reality eyewear device in a more socially acceptable manner. Combining the displays of a smartwatch and an augmented reality eyewear device into a single graphical user interface may provide enhanced display function and more responsive gestural input.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, which may include a display unit that displays a virtual space, an operating unit that outputs input operation data associating an input operation of a user with coordinate information, and a storage unit that stores the input operation data and may execute a game where a character moves based on the input operation. The information processing apparatus may retrieve the input operation data from the storage unit, perform control including moving the character in a predetermined direction when the input operation is determined to be a first input operation and when the input operation is determined to be the second input operation, and may determine that the input operation is the second input operation when a distance, in the predetermined direction, between an intermediate point and an end or start point is larger than a distance in the predetermined direction between the start and end point.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for weapon system monitoring, historical usage analysis, and performance evaluation of a plurality of assets within a deployment location, where each asset of the plurality includes one or more sensors that record operational information of each asset and are used to produce at least one signal, including a server device running application software that uses the signal received from each asset to detect and store situational state data of each asset and performance level data of a party associated with each asset, and a machine learning system that uses the situational state data and the performance level data to determine an operational profile of the party.

Abstract: A wireless device includes a user interface that generates a pairing signal in response to an indication from a user to pair the wireless device to at least one remote device and generates a first location request signal in response to a second indication from a user to locate the at least one remote device. A short-range wireless transceiver communicates RF signals to pair the wireless device to the at least one remote device and that transmits a first RF paging signal to the at least one remote device in response to the location request signal.

Abstract: An ambient lighting system for automobiles configured to illuminate a passenger compartment, comprises: an optical system in turn comprising: a plurality of RGB LED light sources; a structural support on which the light sources are placed; and a contact surface on which a user can interact, and through which light rays can exit. The ambient lighting system also includes: a control unit configured to control the RGB LED light sources in order to present light animations; and a touch sensor configured to detect touch of the contact surface in a defined region, which is configured to define, along the optical system at least one soft key. The ambient lighting system further includes: a voice command recognition system electronically connected to the control unit and configured to recognize voice commands; and a projector configured to project an image, such as a symbol and/or logo, on the contact surface.

Abstract: A computing system includes a mobile device having a wireless transceiver and an orientation sensor that senses orientation of the mobile device and generates orientation data based on the sensed orientation. A controller converts the orientation data to graphical pointer data, which is transmitted via the wireless transceiver to a local computing device, which translates the graphical pointer data to represent a graphical pointer being displayed on its display. The graphical pointer is controlled on the display of the local computing device by changing orientation of the mobile device.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein includes a controller or device that provides multi-dimensional hand interaction with the digital world by delivering physical sensations to the palm and the fingertips. The device translates motion from the hand and fingers to control of a computer device, while simultaneously receiving signals to display haptic sensations. The device is “controller-held” around a user's hand, holding onto hand anatomy at key locations. In some embodiments, the device has one-handed engagement and disengagement. In some embodiments, the device may be used as a game controller, incorporating WebVR electronics and software, wireless communication, power-harvesting electronics, inertial measurements unit electronics including additional inputs for camera-based IMU supplementation, battery recharging electronic and internal communication protocol support electronics.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems, methods, apparatuses, and techniques that utilize enhanced gesture-based input mechanisms to facilitate rapid creation and editing of digital music compositions. These technologies can be specially designed and configured to optimize creation, editing, and/or sharing of digital music compositions on mobile electronic devices that include capacitive sensing mechanisms. The technologies include multi-gesture functionalities that enable users to view and access various notation customization features in a compact space of a mobile device display. Additionally, the technologies encompass improved data storage models that enable underlying notation data to be accessed in multiple operational modes, and permit frequencies or pitches of notations to be accurately generated and incorporated into audio signals.

Abstract: Methods and systems useful for detecting neurological disorders and for measuring general cognitive performance, in particular by measuring eye movements and/or pupil diameter during eye-movement tasks.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for providing a multipurpose remote control are provided.

Abstract: Systems and/or techniques for facilitating relay attack prevention for electronic quick response (QR) codes are provided. In various embodiments, a system can determine a cardinality and a frame rate. In various aspects, the system can transmit a first electronic instruction to a mobile device, which can cause the mobile device to generate a set of interlaced frames having the determined cardinality. In various cases, the set of interlaced frames can respectively correspond to a set of portions of an electronic QR code, such that different frames from the set of interlaced frames depict different portions from the set of portions of the electronic QR code. In various aspects, the first electronic instruction can further cause the mobile device to sequentially render, at the determined frame rate, the set of interlaced frames on an electronic display of the mobile device.

Abstract: A multitouch touch device (DIS) employing capacitive detection, including: a touch matrix array and a first voltage-generating source configured to generate, for each row and each column of the matrix array, a first input voltage having a first frequency leading to the generation of a first output voltage. The device also includes a second voltage-generating source for generating, for each intersection between at least two rows and two columns of the matrix array, a second input voltage having a second frequency different from the first frequency leading to the generation of a second output voltage. A processing circuit is configured to determine, depending on first and second reference values, whether the first and second output voltages are representative of a press and of its position.

Abstract: A human challenge can be presented in an augmented reality user interface. A user can use a camera of a smart device to capture a video stream of the user's surroundings, and the smart device can superimpose a representation of an object on the image or video stream being captured by the smart device. The smart device can display in the user interface the image or video stream and the object superimposed thereon. The user will be prompted to perform a task with respect to one or more of these augmented reality objects displayed in the user interface. If the user properly performs the task, e.g., selects the correct augmented reality objects, the application will validate the user as a person.

Abstract: A rotary actuator assembly includes a rotary actuator having a rotary body on a capacitively-sensing detection surface of the touch panel. A sensor ring coupled to the rotary body includes on a first ring surface includes alternately arranged contact surfaces and insulating surfaces and on a second ring surface includes a circumferential metal surface that is electrically connected to the contact surfaces. A sliding contact includes a contact pad and a contact spring connected together. The contact pad forms an electrical contact point fixed at a position of the detection surface. The contact spring contacts the contact surfaces and the insulating surfaces in alternation as the sensor ring rotates with rotation of the rotary body whereby a variable electrical signal is generated at the contact point. The electrical signal is detectable by the touch panel and the touch panel includes a mutual capacitance touch sensor assembly.

Abstract: A handheld controller is suitable for controlling a virtual reality system. The handheld controller has a pointer direction corresponding to the virtual reality system. The handheld controller includes a holding portion, a knob, and a positioning module. The holding portion is suitable to be held by a hand of a user. The knob is pivotally connected to the holding portion on a rotation axis. The rotation axis is coaxial with or parallel to the pointer direction. The positioning module is connected to the holding portion and is configured to provide a position of the holding portion in a three-dimensional space. In addition, a control method is also provided here.

Abstract: An electronic device is described. The electronic device may include a housing, a rotatable crown, and a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) sensor positioned within the housing. The rotatable crown may include an array of retroreflective surface features that reflect incident light back to a light source. Each retroreflective surface feature of the array of retroreflective surface features may be formed as a corner-cube with three perpendicular faces. The SMI sensor or associated processing electronics may compare originally emitted light with reflected light to identify a movement or distance of the rotatable crown with respect to the SMI sensor.

Abstract: A scanner acquires a set of images of a hand of a user to facilitate identification. These images may vary, due to changes in relative position, pose, lighting, obscuring objects such as a sleeve, and so forth. A first neural network determines output data comprising a spatial mask and a feature map for individual images in the set. The output data for two or more images is combined to provide aggregate data that is representative of the two or more images. The aggregate data may then be processed using a second neural network, such as convolutional neural network, to determine an embedding vector. The embedding vector may be stored and associated with a user account. At a later time, images acquired from the scanner may be processed to produce an embedding vector that is compared to the stored embedding vector to identify a user at the scanner.

Abstract: An augmented reality system for assisting the driver of a vehicle comprising a display headset, a positioning system and a display driver configured to generate graphic elements which appear to the driver to move independently with respect to one another.

Abstract: A computing system for direct three-dimensional pointing includes at least one computing device, and a pointing/input device including at least one light source and a motion sensor module for determining absolute and relative displacement of the pointing/input device. At least one imaging device is configured for capturing a plurality of image frames each including a view of the light source as the pointing/input device is held and/or moved in a three-dimensional space. Two or more imaging devices may be provided. A computer program product calculates at least a position and/or a motion of the light source in three-dimensional space from the plurality of sequential image frames and from the pointing/input device absolute and relative displacement information, and renders on the graphical user interface a visual indicator corresponding to the calculated position and/or the motion of the light source. Methods for direct three-dimensional pointing and command input are described also.

Abstract: A joystick for controlling a machine in multi-axes includes: a handle assembly allowed to rotate around a central axis extending along a longitudinal direction of the joystick, comprising a button body in which an upper circuit board having an upper sensor is provided; a control assembly having a lower body in which a lower circuit with an lower sensor is provided; and a control lever partly introduced to the handle assembly and mounted on a pivotal member for pivotal movement relative to the lower body. The control lever is at least partly made of plastic in an injection-molding operation and has an overmolded lower magnet provided in the proximity of the lower circuit of the a control portion, wherein the control lever has a further upper magnet provided in the proximity of the upper circuit of the handle assembly.

Abstract: A system and method for simple video editing and playback is disclosed. A platform implementing the described system and method allows users to edit videos including by clipping, combining and annotating, without requiring local video storage. Rather, edited videos are represented by metadata enabling playback of the edited videos directly from embedded video players. Playback directly accesses the original content owners' source files, increasing their video views and watch time, and minimizing risk of inadvertent copyright infringement. A control loop switches between identically located visible and hidden pre-loaded embedded video players in order to present seamless playback. A transparent annotation layer in a substantially identical location as the embedded video players allows for annotations to be mapped onto video playback.

Abstract: A solid-state switch for an external system includes a cover member, a first solid-state transducer, a second transducer, a microcontroller, a user feedback device, and a switching circuit. The first transducer is mechanically coupled to the cover member and configured to generate first signals in response to a perturbation at the cover member. The second transducer is configured to generate second signals in response to the perturbation. The microcontroller is configured to obtain first data from the first signals, second data from the second signals, and determine user inputs in accordance with at least the first data, the second data, and an operational state of the solid-state switch. The user feedback device is configured to provide feedback to a user of the switch in accordance with a switching behavior of the switching circuit. The second transducer is configured as a proximity sensor for detecting proximity of an object to the cover member.

Abstract: An information handling system implemented as a convertible notebook may include a first assembly, a second assembly hingedly coupled to the first assembly, a magnet housed in the first assembly, a giant magnetoresistance sensor housed in the second assembly, a Hall effect sensor housed in the second assembly, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the giant magnetoresistance sensor and the Hall effect sensor, and configured to, based on a first signal received from the giant magnetoresistance sensor and a second signal received from the Hall effect sensor, determine a position of the first assembly relative to the second assembly.

Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to the control and utilization of multiple sensors within a device. For an example, motion of a device may be detected in response to receipt of a signal from a first sensor disposed in the device, and a power state of a second sensor also disposed in the device may be changed in response to detected motion.

Abstract: A control circuit is configured to control a first electrode structure on an electronic device to transmit a first transmitting signal to a touch panel. The control circuit is further configured to control a second electrode structure on the electronic device to transmit a second transmitting signal to the touch panel during a first time interval, and configured to control the second electrode structure to work as a button during a second time interval.

Abstract: A device for providing feedback based on an input according to the present disclosure includes a sensor for sensing an input signal corresponding to the input of a user, and a controller that determines the input of the user as at least one of a touch operation, a press operation, or a swipe operation based on the input signal, and provides feedback corresponding to the determination result. The device may provide feedback using a haptic or sound output scheme based on the input of the user, thereby allowing the user to intuitively recognize an input function.

Abstract: An electrical switch includes a base, an actuating rod comprising a lateral wall guided in a bore of the base, a return spring for the rod which moves with respect to the base. The return spring comprises a last elastic turn which, during the actuating travel of the rod, bears against an abutment surface of the base and which cooperates with a ramp formed in the side wall which deforms it radially. The bore has a series of axial ribs projecting into the bore, each of which is slidably received in a complementary axial groove formed in the side wall. A radial upper end facet of each axial rib forms a portion of the abutment surface.

Abstract: Utilization of a selection ring to select icons is provided herein. The selection ring is presented in a first graphical user interface. In response to receiving a first selection of the selection ring by a user, a plurality of icons are presented in the first graphical user interface. User manipulation of a position of the selection ring within the first graphical user interface is received, where that manipulation occurs without altering a location of the plurality of icons being presented within the first graphical user interface. In response to receiving a second selection associated with the selection ring, an icon from the plurality of icons is selected based on the position of the selection ring within the first graphical user interface. A second graphical user interface is then presented to the user based on the selected icon.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring geolocations of a plurality of weapons within a deployment location, where each of the weapons includes one or more sensors that produce more or more signals, including a response infrastructure configured for management of the weapons, a server device running application software that uses the one or more signals received from each of the weapons to detect a geolocation of a weapon and causes the response infrastructure to determine if the detected geolocation of the weapon conforms to the stored rule regarding the permitted weapon geolocation, and a threat detection and analysis module that performs an action based on a confirmation that the detected geolocation of the weapon does not conform to the stored rule regarding the permitted weapon geolocation.

Abstract: A game controller includes an assembled shell and at least one control member which passes through the assembled shell and includes, outside the assembled shell, a head for manipulating the control member. The head is pivotable in all directions from a rest position into which it returns in a rotationally elastic manner. The game controller further includes at least one adjusting element for adjusting the stop angle (?) of the control member and is able to be removably mounted on the control member and removed from the control member without disassembling the shell of the game controller. The control member is provided with the removable adjusting element tiltable in each tilt direction until it reaches a stop position in which the adjusting element abuts and allows the tilting of the control member to be blocked.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for viewing and manipulating digital images. One example apparatus includes a controller configured to receive user input via a plurality of context-adaptive button controls, each of the plurality of context-adaptive button controls being associated with at least one function for viewing and manipulating digital images. The controller configured to determine at least one context of the digital medical images and change the at least one function for viewing and manipulating digital images based on the determined context.

Abstract: A touch sensor may include a substrate, a drive electrode on the substrate, a sense electrode on the substrate, and a deformable snap member disposed over the drive electrode and the sense electrode. The deformable snap member may include a deflectable metal material. When the metal material flexes from a resting position, a change in capacitance between the drive electrode and the sense electrode may be detectable.

Abstract: A game processing system for processing of a game that provides interaction with a virtual character according to one embodiment includes a storage that stores action data for specifying one or more actions of the virtual character and one or more computer processors. The game includes a VR mode in which the game progresses in accordance with detection information obtained by a head mounted display. The one or more processors determine an action of the player performed toward the virtual character based on the detection information obtained by the head mounted display attached to the head of the player, cause the virtual character to interact with the player based on the action of the player; and suspend execution of the VR mode if a suspension condition is satisfied.

Abstract: One disclosed example system includes a reception room meeting device configured for establishing a video conference with a device associated with a remote receptionist. The reception room meeting device sends a request for a video meeting with one of a plurality of candidate remote receptionists in response to receiving an activation signal triggered by a visitor to a reception area, and establishes the video meeting with a device associated with one remote receptionist selected based on the request. The system further includes a virtual receptionist system configured to access visitor data obtained by various input devices at the reception area, and determine the status of the visitor based on the visitor data. The virtual receptionist system further transmits the status of the visitor to the device associated with the selected remote receptionist to facilitate the check-in process.

Abstract: A game processing system for processing a game having a first mode and a second mode according to an aspect includes one or more computer processors. The one or more computer processors are configured to provide an interaction with a virtual character in the first mode and the second mode. In a switch process for switching the game from the first mode to the second mode, the one or more computer processors are configured to, start the second mode if a switch object is selected by a player of the game gazing at the switch object during a predetermined period of time since the switch object is displayed, and return to the first mode if the switch object is not selected during the predetermined period of time.

Abstract: The invention relates to an input device (6) for operating a multimedia device (4) depending on the position of a user's finger on a pressure plate (24) comprising: the pressure plate (24) which comprises a bottom side (50) and a top side (48) opposite the bottom side (50), on which the user can move their finger, a regular grid (15) made of tactile elements (26) which can be haptically sensed by the finger of the user and which are formed on the top side (48) of the pressure plate (24), and a sensor (62) arranged on the bottom side (50) of the pressure plate (24) which is set up to transmit a button selection signal (42) to the multimedia device (4) depending on the position of the finger on the top side (48).

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for combining video and virtual reality presentations, including a server device running application software that receives sensor signals at a connection point from a plurality of assets within a deployment location and processes the signals to generate a virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, and a graphic user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, where the virtual reality depiction is combined with video derived from the deployment location in the graphic user interface presentation.

Abstract: An optical proximity sensor includes an optical path extender that extends an optical path length of the optical proximity sensor without a corresponding extension of a geometric path length of the optical proximity sensor. The optical path extender may be a high-refractive index material positioned along the optical path through the optical proximity sensor. The optical path extender may include one or more redirection features configured to change a direction of the light traveling within the optical proximity sensor. The optical path extender may include a photonic component configured to simulate an extension of the geometric path within an optical proximity sensor by applying a momentum-dependent transfer function to the light traveling through it.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of graphically presenting an indicating marker over a 3-D model of a tissue surface during a catheterization procedure, comprising determining a region over the 3-D model, deforming the indicating marker to congruently match a shape defined by the 3-D model across the region at a plurality of positions; and rendering the 3-D model into an image including the deformed indicating marker by generating an image of the 3-D model covered by said deformed indicating marker.