Abstract: Systems and methods for account data association with voice interface devices are disclosed. For example, when a host user/primary user and guest user have consented for account data to be associated with the primary user's devices, a request to associate the account data may be received. Voice and device-based authentication may be performed to confirm the identity of the guest user and the guest user's account data may be associated with the primary user's devices. During a guest session, voice recognition may be utilized to determine if a given user utterance is from the guest user or the primary user, and actions may be performed by the voice interface device accordingly.

Abstract: An electronic device including: one or more processors to control operations thereof, to simultaneously process multiple wireless signals received from a plurality of multimedia devices transmitting streaming media content and to transmit the processed wireless signals to another one of the plurality of multimedia devices; a storage device to store received broadcast media content; and a network controller to wirelessly receive streaming broadcast media content from a plurality of broadcast media sources, to provide a wired and a wireless connectivity to the plurality of multimedia devices, to exchange media processing capabilities between the electronic device and the plurality of multimedia devices after establishing network connections therebetween, to receive a wireless signal including streaming media content from at least one of the plurality of multimedia devices, and to stream a processed version of the received wireless signal including streaming media content to another one of the plurality of multi

Abstract: A looking away determination device includes: a determination unit that determines that a driver is in a looking away state when a proportion of an image in which a face of the driver is not detected with respect to a plurality of images obtained by imaging the driver is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value, the first predetermined value being determined based on driving state information that indicates a state during driving by the driver.

Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for binocularly displaying visual content as a first image directed towards a first eye of a user and as a second image directed towards a second eye of the user. The first image comprises a first area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding first area of the second image. The second image comprises a second, different area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding second area of the first image.

Abstract: Data for processing by a machine learning model may be prepared by encoding a first portion of the data including a spatial data. The spatial data may include a spatial coordinate including one or more values identifying a geographical location. The encoding of the first portion of the data may include mapping, to a cell in a grid system, the spatial coordinate such that the spatial coordinate is represented by an identifier of the cell instead of the one or more values. The data may be further prepared by embedding a second portion of the data including textual data, preparing a third portion of the data including hierarchical data, and/or preparing a fourth portion of the data including numerical data. The machine learning model may be applied to the prepared data in order to train, validate, test, and/or deploy the machine learning model to perform a cognitive task.

Abstract: Techniques for facilitating palette and infrared image generation systems and methods are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving user input indicative of a plurality of threshold temperatures to divide a temperature range into a plurality of temperature regions and a respective visual representation mode for each of the plurality of temperature regions. Each of the plurality of temperature regions is bound by at least one of the plurality of threshold temperatures. The respective visual representation mode for each of the plurality of temperature regions is a color mode or a grayscale mode. The method further includes generating a palette based on the user input. Related devices and systems are also provided.

Abstract: Methods and systems for calculating, storing, and allowing electronic searches for metadata associated with media titles. The metadata includes scores specific to each actor and each genre of a media title, where the scores indicate the degree to which an actor's performance in that title corresponds to a particular genre. Electronic searches for particular actors' performance in a specific genre thus return more accurate results that more correctly reflect how well the actors' performances reflect that genre.

Abstract: Videos to be hosted at an asset hosting platform and submitted by an owner of the videos are received. The videos are provided for consumption by users of the asset hosting platform. The historical data identifies a historical popularity of one or more of the videos. Whether the historical data associated with the one or more of the videos satisfies a viewership rate specifying a rate of viewership over a predetermined period of time for the one or more of the videos is determined. Responsive to determining that the historical data associated with the one or more of the videos satisfies the viewership rate, the owner is determined as eligible to participate in a video performance sharing program. A communication for a client device associated with the owner of the videos to invite the owner to participate in the video performance sharing program is generated.

Abstract: A display device including a display panel which includes a main region configured to display an image and a protrusion region protruding from one side of the main region to be bent, a lower film which is disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, and a metal layer which is disposed on a rear surface of the lower film and comprises a notch region. The protrusion region includes a first bending portion which has a first curvature and a pad portion which faces the main region in a thickness direction of the display panel, and the pad region is disposed in the notch region.

Abstract: Implementations of the present specification disclose mobile payment methods, apparatuses, and devices. In one aspect, the method includes: monitoring, by a terminal device that is in lock screen mode, outputs of one or more sensors of the terminal device; determining that the outputs of the one or more sensors satisfy first specified criteria indicative of one or more particular body movements; in response to determining that the outputs of the one or more sensors satisfy the first specified criteria, displaying, on the terminal device, a payment processing interface; receiving an input through the payment processing interface; and executing a payment service based on the input.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a message viewing method and a terminal, where the method includes: receiving a first input; and in response to the first input, displaying a message display screen, where in a case that there is an unread message of at least one application, the message display screen includes at least one display window, or if there is no unread message, the message display screen does not include the display window; and each of the display window(s) is used to display at least part of unread messages of one application.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to ingest data objects from a flat file server for use in one or more system operations including providing a renderable data object to a user and updating a data item database. As described, the ingestion system includes an ingestion module, a flat file module, a compliance module, and a deduplication module wherein the modules together ingest a flat file data object, parse and process a renderable data object from the flat file data object, and store the renderable data object in a renderable object database.

Abstract: A hub is configured to provide voice control without assistance from a remote system, which allows the hub to provide a user with the ability to control second devices in an environment by issuing voice commands, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet). The hub is also configured to execute rules without assistance from the remote system, which allows the hub to execute rules, even when the hub is unable to communicate with the remote system over a wide area network (e.g., the Internet).

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a region information processing method and apparatus, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence in computer technologies. The specific implementation is: acquiring a first distance between a first region and a second region, a first object set included in the first region, and a second object set included in the second region; determining spatial dependency information between the first region and the second region according to the first distance; determining object dependency information between the first region and the second region according to the first object set and the second object set; and determining a symbiosis between the first region and the second region according to the spatial dependency information and the object dependency information.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to processing a data model having hierarchical data. A front-end computer sends a request to a back-end computer for dimension candidates for the data model, which is visualized by the front-end computer. The front-end computer is configured score and rank such dimension candidates in order to determine statistics from the data model. The back-end computer determines dimension candidates based on their cardinality and hierarchical information and sends the dimension candidates to the front-end computer. The front-end computer performs the scoring and ranking of dimension candidates and determines statistics for a set of the dimension candidates. The statistics may be presented to a user along with charts and graphs representing the data model.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for UI testing and reconciliation are presented. In one example, a method of UI testing includes generating a wireframe model of the UI. The method also includes generating a code segment from a portion of the wireframe model of the UI. Additionally, the example method includes determining whether an error in the code segment exists based on a comparison of an aspect of the wireframe model to an aspect of the code segment. The method may include generating an updated code segment from the portion of the wireframe model of the UI when determining the error in the code segment.

Abstract: Techniques for performing outputting additional content associated with but nonresponsive to an input command are described. A system receives input data from a device. The system determines an intent representing the input data and receives first output data responsive to the input data. The system determines, based on context data, that additional content associated with the first output data but nonresponsive to the input data should be output. The system receives second output data associated with but nonresponsive to the input data thereafter. The system then presents first content corresponding to the first output data and second content corresponding to the second output data.

Abstract: A graphical planner allows a user to create or select, and then display, images that represent tasks and events to be completed by the user, as well as corresponding images that represent tasks and events that the user has already completed. The graphical planner allows a user to plan and schedule events and tasks by indicating an event or task in a non-textual (i.e., graphic or symbolic) manner. Completion of the events and tasks by the user can also be signaled or otherwise indicated in a non-textual (e.g., visual, audible) manner.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a server computer, a request message comprising at least a credential from a client device. The server computer can hash the credential to form an altered value. The server computer can then determine whether or not the altered value matches one of the hashed values stored in the database. If the altered value matches a matched hashed value, the server computer can determine a range of a plurality of ranges. The range can be associated with the matched hashed value. The server computer can then determine a data item associated with the range. The server computer can provide the data item to the client device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating a plurality of healthcare software applications. A user initiates one or more software applications required to perform different parts of a healthcare task. The software applications include a local application installed on the user's device and a web-based application accessed through a browser. A host application is launched in order to facilitate local two-way communication between the local application and the web-based application. The host application generates a local communication server on the user device through which the local application and web application communicate. This allows a user to easily and efficiently perform multiple parts of the healthcare tasks. This also allows different healthcare software applications to be integrated without requiring any plug-ins or other integration components to be installed on the user's device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to administration of an electronic survey via third-party content. For example, an electronic survey system receives a request to provide an electronic survey within a survey placeholder of a third-party webpage provided to a client device associated with a respondent. The survey system determines characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. The survey system then selects an electronic survey by comparing the characteristics of available electronic surveys to the characteristics of the webpage or the respondent. Additionally, the survey system provides electronic questions from the selected electronic survey for display within the survey placeholder of the webpage. The survey system also administers the electronic survey within the survey placeholder without redirecting the respondent client device away from the third-party webpage.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a client device implementing a messaging application, a request to access a display of a plurality of augmented reality experiences; retrieving a plurality of identifiers of each of the plurality of augmented reality experiences; determining that a given augmented reality experience of the plurality of augmented reality experiences is associated with an access restriction; modifying a given identifier of the plurality of identifiers associated with the given augmented reality experience in response to determining that the given augmented reality experience is associated with the access restriction; and generating, for display on the client device, a graphical user interface that includes the plurality of identifiers comprising the modified given identifier.

Abstract: A method and device for operating an application icon are provided, so as to prompt a user where a currently operated application icon is located. The method includes: displaying a first screen page of a desktop, wherein the first screen page comprises N application icons, the N application icons comprise a first application icon and at least one first-layer application icon, and the first-layer application icon is located around the first application icon and adjacent to the first application icon; and the first-layer application icon comprises a foreground layer and a background layer; and receiving an operation of a user related to the first application icon; and in response to the operation, displaying the at least one first-layer application icon in a first display manner, wherein the first display manner comprises that a foreground layer of the at least one first-layer application icon moves relative to the first application icon.

Abstract: Grip detection can be beneficial for an electronic device to ignore unintended contacts on a touch sensitive surface. Examples of the disclosure provide various ways for identifying an input patch as a grip. In some examples, identifying an input patch as a grip comprises determining whether the input patch satisfies one or more grip identification criteria. In some examples, identified grips are saved in a grip database. In some examples, the identified grips are filtered out of touch images. In some examples, when baseline touch data for a touch-sensitive is updated, the touch processor can forgo updating the baseline for portions of the touch sensitive surface associated with the identified grips.

Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method for automatically grouping design elements on a page. The method comprises generating one or more sets of groups, each set of groups including one or more groups, each group grouping including one or more of the design elements; calculating set cohesion metrics for at least two of the sets of groups, the set cohesion metric calculated for a given set of groups providing a measure of how well the given set of groups has grouped the design elements on the page; determining, based on the cohesion metrics, a final set of groups; and grouping the design elements according to the one or more groups defined by the final set of groups.

Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising retrieving captured process data comprising video and/or audio data capturing at least part of the execution of events in a machine, retrieving at least a first signal representing a measurable machine condition responsive to the events executed, wherein a first sequence of said machine control instructions is configured to trigger a respective first set of said events for execution thereof, determining first time stamps of the machine control instructions, aligning the first time stamps with second time stamps determined for at least one of; i) times of execution of said first set of events determined from the captured process data; ii) the first signal and associated measurable machine condition retrieved in response to execution of said first set of events, displaying a representation of the first sequence of machine control instructions, associated with the first time stamps, together with an output representation said second time stamps.

Abstract: A method for providing a custom print product comprises displaying a video that includes an exhibited physical product; comparing feature or attribute data associated with the exhibited product with a feature or attribute associated with the available product; displaying a digital overlay in the video and in association with the displayed exhibited product if the displayed exhibited product corresponds to the available product; allowing for the selection of the digital overlay and then a digital image, wherein the selected digital image is not representative of the displayed exhibited physical product, and wherein the selected digital image is configured to be disposed on a selected physical product representative of the displayed exhibited physical product associated with the selected digital overlay to provide the customized print product.

Abstract: This specification relates to animation and physics updates in computer games. According to a first aspect of this disclosure, there is described a computer implemented method comprising: updating, using an animation engine, an in-game animation at a first rate; and updating, using an in-game physics engine, an in-game physics state at a second rate, the second rate being different to the first rate. Updating the in-game physics state comprises: interpolating one or more in-game physical parameters corresponding to a physics update time that lies between two consecutive animation update times, the interpolation based on in-game animation frames corresponding to the two consecutive animation update times; and determining the update to the in-game physics state based on the interpolated physical parameters.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a collaboration engine is configured to display shared digital assets consistently across displays. The collaboration engine receives container metadata generated based on a first location and first size of a digital asset within a first scaled workspace displayed on a first display. In response, the collaboration engine computes a second location and second size of the digital asset based on the container metadata and the size of a second scaled workspace. Finally, the collaboration engine configures the second device to display the digital asset within the second scaled workspace based on the second location and the second size. Notably, the container metadata correlates to the appearance of the digital asset on the first display, and the appearance of the digital asset on the second display correlates to the container metadata. Consequently, the appearance of the digital asset is consistent across the displays.

Abstract: Adding electronic content by a user within the prior art requires the user formats every item or uses a template that predetermines the position and type of content added. However, it would be beneficial to provide users with templates which provide rules which are applied to the content as it is added based upon aspects of the template and/or data associated with the content. It would be beneficial if such templates automatically associated format elements, icons, other display elements, sourced additional content etc. based upon aspects such as the region of the template the content is added or data associated with the content being added. Further, where rendering is based upon data associated with the content if the user modifies the rendered content then these changes should be beneficially reflected in the data associated with the content such that a subsequent rendering reflects the user adjustments, etc.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing contextual information for presented media. In one aspect, a method includes storing in a buffer, on a first user device, media data as buffered media data, the buffered media data being a most recent portion of media data received at the first user device, the most recent portion inclusive of the media data received from a present time to a prior time that is fixed relative to the present time; responsive to a search operation invocation at the present time, sending the buffered media data to a search processing system that is remote from the first user device; and receiving, from the search processing system and in response to the buffered media data, contextual information regarding an entity that the data processing system identified from processing the buffered media data.

Abstract: A system and method for cloud management of user interactions on a client device comprising: initiating, in response to an initiation request of a client application, processing of a workflow configuration with an initial session state, wherein the workflow is a data model of a graph of nodes connected with directed edges, where the nodes include a set of node types that includes at least a pane node; iteratively processing the workflow configuration, initially using the initial session state, and thereby generating rendered panes for use in a user interaction flow of a client application, which comprises: following a next edge of the workflow configuration to determine a next workflow node, processing the next workflow node, which comprises, when the next workflow node is a pane node, rendering the pane node into a rendered pane, and sending the rendered panes to the client device.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for accessing a model of a building; selecting a set of floor joists, wherein the floor joists are identified by a set of members, the type of members, and the member properties; isolating a plurality of the floor joists, wherein the floor joists interface with another floor joists in a horizontal type interface; selecting members of the floor joists involved in the interface, wherein the interface is identified as a connection between the floor joists; detecting the member type and the interface type; calculating a set of actual values associated with the interface type; comparing the set of actual values with a set of required values and determining the delta of the actual values and the required values; and identifying each interface where the delta is outside a predetermined range.

Abstract: A computing system and method that can be used for a video conferencing system including a graphical user interface having a virtual whiteboard user interface that is responsive to inputs from multiple attendees of a video conference. In particular, the state of an application tool such as a camera, visual note indicator, web link, pen/pencil tool, highlighter tool, or other application tool executing or otherwise represented within the multi-user interaction whiteboard can respond and change in real-time as multiple attendees of the video conference interact with the virtual whiteboard user interface. The systems and methods of the present disclosure allow for a multi-user interaction whiteboard to offer various tools for the video conferencing system to facilitate interactions by multiple attendees within the graphical user interface.

Abstract: A user interface for allowing a user to create a chart, the user interface comprising: an entity type selection area for allowing a user to select a type of entity; an explorer for displaying an entity-relationship schema associated with the selected entity type and allowing a user to navigate the schema via one or more relationship paths; a list area for displaying one or more available fields of an entity associated with a relationship path selected from the explorer; and a target area for displaying a list of bindable data targets and allowing a user to assign one or more of the available fields to the bindable data targets to create a chart.

Abstract: A method for detecting freeze words includes receiving audio data that corresponds to an utterance spoken by a user and captured by a user device associated with the user. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognizer, the audio data to determine that the utterance includes a query for a digital assistant to perform an operation. The speech recognizer is configured to trigger endpointing of the utterance after a predetermined duration of non-speech in the audio data. Before the predetermined duration of non-speech, the method includes detecting a freeze word in the audio data. In response to detecting the freeze word in the audio data, the method also includes triggering a hard microphone closing event at the user device. The hard microphone closing event prevents the user device from capturing any audio subsequent to the freeze word.

Abstract: An electronic device displays icons of a plurality of applications on a home screen, displays a plurality of first prompts around one or more icons of one or more second-type applications in response to the at least one of the touch-and-hold operation or the force touch operation on an icon of a first application, and a first prompt indicates that the one or more second-type applications support split screen, receives a first operation performed by the user of dragging an icon of the first application to contact a first prompt corresponding to an icon of a third application, and, in response, switches from displaying the home screen to displaying a first split-screen interface, where the first split-screen interface comprises an interface of the first application and an interface of the third application being displayed at a same time.

Abstract: A display method for displaying a virtual object, comprising: by at least one processor, recognizing characteristics of a main object from a video; by the at least one processor, recognizing a first fixed object from the video; by the at least one processor, determining a first target point in the video according to the characteristics of the main object; by the at least one processor, calculating a first position relationship between the first fixed object and the first target point; by the at least one processor, determining an anchor point in a virtual environment; and by the at least one processor, controlling a display device to display the virtual object at a second target point in the virtual environment by setting a second position relationship corresponding to the first position relationship between the anchor point and the second target point.

Abstract: Methods and systems are described for identifying and marking content items that have or have not been shared to social media or content hosting services. The methods and systems use a marking engine to access a content item in a content library and identify the content hosts or social media sites to which the content item was previously transmitted. A marking engine may create a user interface, generate a thumbnail of each content item, and generate a graphical indicator for each identified content host. A marking engine may generate for display thumbnail representations of each content item with graphical indicators of each of the identified content hosts. A marking engine may sort thumbnails by metadata associated with the corresponding content items, such as creation time and date, location, share status, and other classifications and filters, to indicate which content items are ready to be shared to a content host.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch control method. The method includes obtaining attitude information and/or holding information of an electronic device; determining a target area located in a first display area of the electronic device and/or a second display area of the electronic device, and presenting a control mark in the first display area or the second display area based on the attitude information and/or the holding information; generating a touch parameter based on size information of the target area; and controlling the control mark to execute an operation instruction corresponding to a touch operation based on the touch parameter in response to the touch operation for the target area.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a user interface displayed by a first electronic device is navigated with a first mode of navigation when touch input at a touch-sensitive surface of a second electronic device satisfies one or more criteria, and is navigated with a second mode of navigation when touch input at the touch-sensitive surface does not satisfy the one or more criteria.

Abstract: An operating device for a transportation vehicle having at least one touch-sensitive operating area to display at least one operating symbol and to actuate at least one window lifter. The operating device, viewed from an imaginary installed state in the transportation vehicle, has an upper face and a front face adjoining the upper face, at least one touch-sensitive operating area for actuating a window lifter that is on at least part of the upper face and also on at least part of the front face.

Abstract: A method and a device for reference-diagram editing for a chart, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method is performed by a mobile terminal and includes, during display of a chart: detecting whether a chart operation object is selected; switching the chart to an editable state in response to detecting that the chart operation object is selected; detecting preset edit-touch events in a control region of an edit page corresponding to the chart after switching the chart to the editable state, where the edit page includes the control region and the chart, and the control region coincides with a region where a main chart of the chart is located; performing a reference-diagram editing operation on the main chart of the chart according to the edit-touch events detected in the control region of the edit page to edit a reference diagram on the main chart.

Abstract: A computer program product comprising: accessing a model of a building, wherein the model is comprised of a plurality of assemblies, wherein the assemblies are comprised of a plurality of members; detecting the assemblies which are identified as roof trusses, wherein the roof truss is identified by the specific members and member internal interfaces and the member properties; analyzing the roof trusses to determine if a roof truss has an external interface with another roof truss; isolating the roof trusses and the plurality of members; and analyzing each of the members of the roof trusses which have external interfaces with other members, wherein the interface is analyzed to determine if the interface is conflicting, wherein a conflicting interface is one where the actual values of the members are inconsistent with a required value.

Abstract: There is provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a first hardware processor that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal obtained through an ultrasound probe; a display; a second hardware processor that causes the display to display the generated ultrasound image data; and a console that has a plurality of physical operation devices that receive an operation input. The second hardware processor registers display position information, which is information regarding a display position within a display screen of a guide including an operation display component corresponding to each operation device of the console and information indicating a function set for the operation device, in a storage and displays the guide on the display based on the display position information stored in the storage.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a display engine that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a graph panel and a visualization panel may be generated. The graph panel may receive graph related inputs or interactions. Graph information based on the graph related inputs or interactions and a data source may be generated. A graph model based on the graph information and the data source may be generated. Elements that correspond to objects in the graph model or relationships in the graph model may be displayed in the graph panel. The graph information and the graph model may be employed to execute a query that provides a data model based on results of the query. The data model may be employed to provide a visualization that is displayed in the display panel.

Abstract: In one embodiment, applications installed on a mobile device may be identified. Historical data pertaining to use of the applications installed on the mobile device may be obtained. A context of the mobile device may be ascertained. Locations in which a plurality of icons representing a plurality of items are to be presented within a homescreen of the mobile device may be determined based, at least in part, on the context of the mobile device and the historical data, where the plurality of items include the applications installed on the mobile device. The homescreen of the mobile device may be updated according to the determined locations, wherein updating the homescreen of the mobile device includes providing at least a portion of the plurality of icons for display within the homescreen of the mobile device such that the homescreen of the mobile device displays the plurality of icons representing the plurality of items at the determined locations.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for dynamically displaying database containers. A container including content and a minimum display size for the document may be received. The display size of the document may be monitored. A determination that the display size of the document is less than the minimum display size may be made. A visible section and a hidden section of the document may be determined based on the display size. The visible section of the document may be displayed. A scroll feature may be activated based on a hidden section size. An indication to scroll the document in a scroll direction may be received. The visible section may be updated to an updated visible section that includes at least a portion of the hidden section. The updated visible section of the document may be displayed via the display.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a virtual scene display method performed at a computing device. The method includes: obtaining animation data and video data; displaying an animation interface corresponding to the animation data in an animation display area of a display interface, the animation interface including a first virtual scene including a plurality of animation elements; and playing a video clip in the video data in response to an operation on the animation elements in the animation interface, the video clip presenting a picture of transformation from the first virtual scene to a second virtual scene. A virtual scene display solution provided in the embodiments of this application can reduce resource consumption of an intelligent device and reduce picture stutter.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for configuring a signage device acquires layout information including position information of at least one signage device in a target area and a floor plan which enables identification of placement of at least one fixture placed in the target area, and content information associated with content to be displayed on the signage device. The information processing apparatus displays an icon corresponding to the signage device at a position corresponding to position information in the floor plan. On receiving a selection of the icon from a user, the information processing apparatus displays content information set in the signage device or content information to be set in the signage device, which enhances the user-friendliness in checking or setting up configuration details.