Abstract: A presence of a consumer transacting at a transaction terminal is detected. Content for the transaction terminal is played as media on the transaction terminal. When an identity of the consumer is resolved, the content is switched to new content that is targeted/customized to the consumer and is played as new media on the transaction terminal. When a transaction concludes, the media play is stopped. Statistics for the transaction and media play are retained for tracking and reporting.

Abstract: A system and method for pairing two devices for secure communications. A user selects a first device to pair with a second device. The first and second devices have the ability to securely communicate with each other through the use of encrypted communications. An encryption key is written to the first device and then burned into the encryption module on the first device. A corresponding decryption key is written to the second device and then is burned into the decryption module of the second device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an information processing method and a device, to resolve a problem that activity information of an application on a terminal device cannot be obtained when the terminal device runs out of power. The method includes: A first terminal device obtains activity information of an application on the first terminal device when a battery level of the first terminal device is less than or equal to a first threshold. The first terminal device determines a second terminal device, where the second terminal device is a terminal device selected from an available device, the available device is an online device that uses a same user account as the first terminal device, and a battery level of the available device is greater than or equal to a second threshold. The first terminal device pushes the activity information of the application on the first terminal device to the second terminal device.

Abstract: A method of generating a display object is provided, the method comprising operating a first processor comprised within a first device to: execute an application; generate an display object associated with the application; output the active display object on the first device; transmit the display object to a second device for output by the second device; and receive user input to the application via the display object output on the second device.

Abstract: Provided are a method device (20, 70) and system (30, 40, 80) for configuring a display screen, for example, the method includes that a network connection request including initial display screen information is sent in a wireless manner after power-on self-test, a network connection is established with a main console (301, 801), the initial display screen information is acquired, the initial display screen information is displayed, the updating operation to position information in the initial display screen information is carried out by the main console (301, 801) to obtain target display screen information, and a coordinate assignment of the target display screen information is displayed to obtain display coordinate information (S61); the target display screen information and the display coordinate information are received, the position information is updated, and identification codes in the display coordinate information are associated with the initial display screen information, and is stored locally (S62)

Abstract: The present technology relates to a projector and a projector control method that make it possible to improve the security of the projector. The projector includes a storage section and a communication control section. The storage section stores a connection destination list indicative of equipment connectable to the projector. In a case where the projector is to be connected to another equipment through a network, the communication control section controls connection to the other equipment according to the connection destination list. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a projector or the like that is to be connected to another equipment through a network.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a communication unit used for communicating with an external device; an input device having a plurality of keys for accepting an input operation of data used for an arithmetic operation; an output device that outputs information; a memory; and at least one processor that causes the output device to provide notice of first information in the case where numerical data for use in the arithmetic operation is received from the external device via the communication unit.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting human presence in or absence from a field-of-view of a camera by analyzing camera data using a processor inside of or adjacent to the camera itself. In an example, the camera can be integrated with or embedded in another edge-based sensor device. In an example, a video signal processing system receives image data from one or more image sensors and uses a local processing circuit to process the image data and determine if a human being is or is not present during a particular time, interval, or sequence of frames. In an example, the human being identification technique can be used in security or surveillance applications such as for home, business, or other monitoring cameras.

Abstract: A computer system is disclosed comprising an operating system having a display subsystem. The display subsystem includes a display interface for receiving display information from applications, and is adapted to generate display output based on the display information. A redirection module is configured to intercept calls from an application to the display interface. Responsive to the intercepted calls, the redirection module transmits display output generated by the application to a connected display device, bypassing at least part of the display subsystem, including for example a desktop compositor or window manager.

Abstract: Method and system for grading a medical image. For example, a system for grading a medical image comprising a grading network configured to provide a grading result corresponding to the medical image based on at least the medical image and/or a list of lesion candidates generated by a lesion identification network.

Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface or “desktop” across two devices are provided. More particularly, a unified desktop is presented across a device and a computer system that comprise a unified system. The unified desktop acts as a single user interface that presents data and receives user interaction in a seamless environment that emulates a personal computing environment. To function within the personal computing environment, the unified desktop includes a process for docking and undocking the device with the computer system. The unified desktop presents a new user interface to allow access to functions of the unified desktop.

Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include detecting at least one indicator of user-initiated interaction with a computing device, obtaining data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, identifying a current state of the computing device, determining that content displayed on a first display device included in the computing device is to be casted to a second display device separate from the computing device based on the at least one indicator of the user-initiated interaction with the computing device, the data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, and the current state of the computing device, and casting the content displayed on the first display device to the second display device.

Abstract: A method for minoring screen includes: determining a target receiver device to be screen-mirrored, where the target receiver device is a screen-mirrorable device supporting a second wireless communication manner; and sending a preset instruction to the target receiver device in a first wireless communication manner, where the preset instruction is used to instruct the target receiver device to establish a minor connection with the transmitter device in the second wireless communication manner.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for exporting design data of a virtual 3D dental design model (12) from an AR application, the AR application being adapted to visualize the dental design model with a preliminary pose and scale (13) in an image (11) of a face comprising a mouth region with a dental situation. The invention further pertains to a method for visualizing a 3D dental design model in an AR application.

Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to switch a hub device from a hub mode to a slave or pass-through mode responsive to one or more contextual triggers.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for interacting with mapping applications. In one example, a virtual assistant server can efficiently communicate with a map server to provide a user with map data in response to spoken user requests received at a user device. In another example, communicatively coupled electronic devices can be synchronized such that a location marker generated on one device can be displayed on the other device. In another example, an electronic device can display simplified views of individual route directions that can be updated based on movement of the user or in response to user requests. In another example, an electronic device can selectively display an interface including a current location of a user or an interface including a route to a predicted destination based on contextual information associated with the user. The interfaces can include affordances for launching an associated mapping application.

Abstract: A system configured to detect a tap event on a surface of a device only using microphone audio data. For example, instead of using a physical sensor to detect the tap event, the device may detect a tap event in proximity to a microphone based on a power level difference between two or more microphones. When a power ratio exceeds a threshold, the device may detect a tap event and perform an action. For example, the device may output an alarm and use a detected tap event as an input to delay or end the alarm. In some examples, the device may detect a tap event using a plurality of microphones. Additionally or alternatively, the device may distinguish between multiple tap events based on a location of the tap event, enabling the device to perform two separate actions depending on the location.

Abstract: A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right.

Abstract: Systems and methods for cross device display synchronization using state data. A second identifier uniquely identifying a second device that is represented on a second display of a second device is obtained at a first device with a first display and a first identifier uniquely identifying the first device. An association is created between the first identifier and the second identifier at a real-time database. User interface (UI) state data defining a first UI state of a UI presented on the first display is submitted from the first device to the real-time database via a first network thereby creating replica UI state data on the real-time database. The real-time database pushes the UI state data to the second device via a second network based on the association between the first identifier and the second identifier thereby causing the second device to synchronize a corresponding UI presented on the second display.

Abstract: A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right.

Abstract: A display device is used in combination with a light-emitting device that emits first signal light. The display device has: a user interface unit that receives input operations using an indicator upon a display screen; and an imaging unit that captures images of the display screen and the first signal light. On the basis of captured images supplied from the imaging unit, the user interface unit takes a region of the display screen that is within a distance range that is determined in advance from the detected position of the first signal light as a valid operation region in which input operations using the indicator are valid.

Abstract: A computing system may include a virtualization server configured to run virtual sessions for a plurality of client devices, with each virtual session having a respective user profile associated therewith, and each user profile having a unique access token associated therewith. The system may further include a cloud computing service configured to store the user profiles, receive access tokens from the virtualization server upon initiation of virtual sessions associated with respective user profiles and provide the user profiles to the virtualization server responsive thereto, and cooperate with the virtualization server to synchronize changes in the user profiles responsive to the user sessions based upon the respective access tokens.

Abstract: A touch display device is provided. The touch display device displays images output from a plurality of source computing devices connected thereto on a single screen divided into regions and converts a touch input of a user with respect to the touch display device into a touch input of a source computing device of a corresponding divided region to transmit the converted touch input so as to allow the corresponding source computing device to recognize the converted touch input as a touch input with respect thereto. Further, the touch display device transmits an input and an output of a peripheral connected to the touch display device to a source computing device which is currently selected through the screen divided into regions, thereby allowing the peripheral to operate as if the peripheral is directly connected to the currently selected source computing device.

Abstract: There is provided a method for centralized screening of a communication session, comprising: receiving, at a server, a request from a caller client terminal, to establish a communication session with a callee client terminal; analyzing, by the server, the request according to a screening set-of-rules; and transmitting, from the server, a screening response to the caller client terminal according to the analysis, wherein the analyzing and the transmitting are performed by the server independently of at least one of real-time status of the callee client terminal and real-time response instructions from the callee client terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication system for communication of a plurality of stereo audio signals between a plurality of communication devices, wherein the plurality of communication devices comprises a first communication device, a second communication device and at least a third communication device. Each communication device of the plurality of communication devices may comprise a signal processing unit, an audio interface configured to receive a local voice signal of a user of the communication device, a binaural rendering unit configured to render the local voice signal into a stereo local voice signal based on a first spatial information, an input communication interface configured to receive a first stereo audio signal and a second stereo audio signal of the plurality of stereo audio signals transmitted by the second communication device and the third communication device, respectively.

Abstract: A motor vehicle has a surroundings lighting device, where the surroundings lighting device includes a first projection module arranged adjacent to a pivotable vehicle door of the motor vehicle in an immobile vehicle bodywork component, where when the first projection module is switched on, the first projection module projects a light distribution onto the ground adjacent to the immobile vehicle bodywork component. A second projection module is arranged on the outside of the vehicle door, where when the second projection module is switched on, the second projection module projects a pictogram onto the ground. The surroundings lighting device is configured to, when an event which is triggered by a user in the surroundings of the motor vehicle is detected, switch on the first projection module and at the same time, or after a delay, switch on the second projection module such that the pictogram is projected onto the light distribution.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism of operating a Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) Application Programming Interface (API) at a node controlling a local device including a local receiver. A flow message is received via the NMOS API. The flow message contains a flow state of a target receiver at a remote node. A local receiver at the local device is configured to mirror the flow state of the target receiver at the remote node. The NMOS API then notifies a registry with an updated flow state of the local receiver at the local device.

Abstract: Communication management methods and systems may insert a bookmark in a chat session. In one implementation, a communication management server is provided. The communication management server comprises a memory storing a set of instructions, and at least one processor configured to: receive, from a plurality of user devices, communication messages associated with a group communication session; store the communication messages in a communication content database; provide the communication messages for display on a display of a user device; receive a display suspension instruction; and generate a visit bookmark indicating a last displayed message in the communication messages.

Abstract: A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a storage that stores a set period that is a period from the point of time when electric power supply starts to the point of time when a projection section starts displaying an image, a remote control that accepts operation, and a controller that changes the set period based on the operation accepted by the remote control, and the controller causes the projection section to start projecting the image after the electric power supply starts and the set period then elapses.

Abstract: The present application discloses a light field display control method and apparatus. The techniques of this disclosure provide a differentiated spatial resolution of different regions of a light field display image. The display pixel density distribution of the display of the light field display device is adjusted from original uniform distribution of display pixels to adjusted non-uniform distribution. The adjusted display pixels of the display includes non-uniform differentiated distribution. Sampling processing is then performed on a to-be-displayed light field image according to actual locations of the display pixels of the display, such that the light field image undergone the sampling processing corresponds to the actual locations of the display pixels of the display. The adjusted display displays the light field image that includes non-uniform differentiated distribution of pixels.

Abstract: A method for displaying a digital object identifier (DOI) is provided. The method includes receiving, by a server, a display instruction sent by a first device, wherein the display instruction is sent to the server after the first device receives a scan instruction to scan the DOI; determining a second device associated with the first device; and sending the display instruction to the second device, wherein the second device displays the DOI after receiving the display instruction.

Abstract: A screen sharing system includes information processing apparatuses that display the same content on their respective screens as a shared screen. Each of the information processing apparatuses includes an operation right switching unit configured to acquire an operation right, a transmission data generating unit configured to generate transmission data including operational information of an input operation, and a drawing unit configured to draw a display object on the screen. At a transmitting information processing apparatus with the operation right, the drawing unit draws the display object according to the operational information, and the transmission data generating unit generates the transmission data including the operational information and sends the transmission data to a receiving information processing apparatus without the operation right.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for converting content browsed at a device are provided. The method includes receiving information about a specification of an external device and a request signal for information related to content which is currently browsed; detecting a document object and a view from the browsed content based on received information about the external device; determining browsed content to be converted based on the detected document object; converting the determined browsed content into data that can be browsed on the external device according to the document object and the view based on the information about the external device; requesting data associated with the converted data from an external server; receiving the associated data; and transmitting the associated data to the external device with the converted data, wherein the document object includes content in a specific region of a screen of the device.

Abstract: A social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold causes a first subset of social network group members of a social network group to be included in a social network conversation earlier than at least one other social network group member. In accordance with the social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, social network posts of the social network conversation are distributed to the first subset of social network group members while delaying distribution of the social network posts of the social network conversation to the at least one other social network group member. Upon satisfaction of the social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, the social network posts of the social network conversation are distributed to the at least one other social network group member.

Abstract: A system may capture an image of a physical item, perform digital image processing to identify features of the physical item from the image, and generate a digital token for the physical item based on the digital image processing.

Abstract: An automatic display adjustment system for a vehicle may include a controller coupled to a display and at least one motor for adjusting the display. The controller may be configured to detect a seat-back angle of a seat occupied by an occupant and determine a display angle based on the detected seat-back angle. The controller may be further configured to generate a control signal to actuate at least one motor for adjusting the display according to the determined display angle.

Abstract: An apparatus causes a server to execute an application program, and stores, in time series, position-information, obtained by an operation to an input device of the apparatus, on a figure representing a target of the operation on a screen shared between the server and the apparatus. Upon determining that the figure is moved by the operation in the same direction at a speed exceeding a threshold, the apparatus calculates, based on the position-information, first position-information indicating a position at which the figure is expected to be after a lapse of a first time from a current-time where the first time includes a time taken for communication between the apparatus and the server, and transmits the first position-information to the server. Upon receiving, from the server, information of an image on the screen which is obtained by executing the application program based on the first position-information, the apparatus displays the image.

Abstract: A virtual reality system and a display device that can be used, for example, as part of the virtual reality system. The display device can have more than one data driver, such as an even row data driver and an odd row data driver. The display device can have a configurable resolution such that one region of the display device operates at full resolution while another region of the display device operates at a reduced resolution. The virtual reality system can also track an eye gaze and adjust the full resolution region of the display device to track the eye gaze.

Abstract: A system and method for usage metering software applications (or features or functions) by monitoring the data store underlying the software application. The data store function may be implemented in many ways, such as a Relational Database, Transactional Database, Network and Graph Database, Object-Oriented Database, Embedded Database, In-memory Database, Schema-less Database, Files and Directories, whether structured or unstructured, Configuration Registries, or Non-traditional Repositories. Business activities performed by the software application are tracked and are independent of hardware usage. Such usage data is valuable in a variety of contexts, including billing based on business activity.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a remote display area including input lenses each depicting a region of a graphical user interface. Examples include, in response to detection of a graphical user interface (GUI) input event with a remote computing device within an input lens having input focus, invoking the GUI input event at a location of the GUI of a local computing device within the region of the GUI depicted in the input lens having input focus.

Abstract: At least one example embodiment provides an apparatus including a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to receive image data from a plurality of pixels, determine a first white point based on the image data and a threshold percentage of a histogram of the image data, determine a second white point based on the image data, determine a third white point based on groups of the image data corresponding to a same hue or desaturation, the processor configured to divide the image data into the groups and determine an image based on at least the first white point, the second white point and the third white point.

Abstract: An iris biometric recognition module includes technology for capturing images of an iris of an eye of a person, whether the person is moving or stationary, and whether the person is located near the iris image capture device or at a distance from the iris image capture device. The iris biometric recognition technology can perform an iris matching procedure for, e.g., authentication or identity verification purposes. The iris biometric recognition module can be incorporated into, for example, a door lock assembly and other access controlled devices, mechanisms, and systems.

Abstract: A method for panning content on a display of a wearable device is disclosed. The method may include determining, via an eye tracking device, a gaze direction of a user. The method may also include determining, via a movement detection system, a head direction of the user. The method may further include, based at least in part on the gaze direction and the head direction both being consistent with a particular direction, causing content displayed on a display of the wearable device to be panned in the particular direction. The method may additionally include determining during panning of the content, via the eye tracking device, that the gaze direction of the user has returned to a neutral position. The method may moreover include, based at least in part on the gaze direction of the user returning to the neutral position, causing content displayed on the display to stop panning.

Abstract: Various embodiments of methods, systems, and computer programs are disclosed for providing advertisements in a conference user interface. One embodiment is a method comprising: a conferencing system establishing a conference between a plurality of participants via a corresponding computing device connected to the conferencing system via a communication network; presenting a conference user interface to the computing devices, the conference user interface displaying each of the participants as a unique participant object in a virtual location; an online advertising platform selecting advertisement data from one or more advertisers; providing the selected advertisement data to the conferencing system; and displaying the advertisement data with an associated advertisement object in the virtual location during the conference.

Abstract: A social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold is obtained that causes a first subset of social network group members of a social network group to be included in a social network conversation earlier than at least one other social network group member and that further causes the at least one other social network group member to be included in the social network conversation upon satisfaction of the obtained social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold. In accordance with the obtained social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, social network posts of the social network conversation are contemporaneously distributed to the first subset of social network group members and delayed in distribution to the at least one other social network group member. Upon satisfaction of the social network conversation dynamic inclusion threshold, the social network posts of the social network conversation are distributed to the at least one other social network group member.

Abstract: A method is described. The method comprising: receiving character data from the remote device in response to a user applying the character data to a displayed target; and supplying the character data to one of a plurality of components executable on a processor of a device based on one or more characters in the character data. A device is also described.

Abstract: A method is described. The method comprising the steps of receiving character data from the remote device following a selection of character data for application to a target; and determining, based on one or more characters in the character data, one or more components executable on the processor for supplying the character data thereto. A device is also described.

Abstract: A method for remote screen sharing using only web-browsers is described. The presenter opens a web page containing an applet that sends the screen data to the server. The presenter may share their entire screen, or may only share a specially marked active display area. The server stores the data and makes it available viewers. Viewers are able to view the presenters screen directly in the web browser, without any downloads, plug-ins, or dialog boxes.

Abstract: Augmented reality presentations are provided at respective electronic devices. A first electronic device receives information relating to modification made to an augmented reality presentation at a second electronic device, and the first electronic device modifies the first augmented reality presentation in response to the information.