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The Image Capturing Configuration Which Contains A Video Screen Where The Optical Axis Of The Image Capturing Lens Will Coincide With The Center Of The Video Screen., Punarjeewa Abeysekera
The Image Capturing Configuration Which Contains A Video Screen Where The Optical Axis Of The Image Capturing Lens Will Coincide With The Center Of The Video Screen., Punarjeewa Abeysekera
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This paper describes an image capturing configuration which contains a screen where the optical axis of the image capturing lens will coincide with the center of the screen. The image capturing configuration will contain a convex lens to collect the light rays coming from the scene in front of the configuration, a sensor and a video screen. In the image capturing configuration, directly looking at the center of the video screen will be equivalent to directly looking at the center of the image capturing lens.
Method And System For Predicting A Smart Dispute Score, Tram Luong, Jenny Weng, Sai Thrinath Gunda, Jing Yang, Rajat Das, Robert Davis, Richard Stopic
Method And System For Predicting A Smart Dispute Score, Tram Luong, Jenny Weng, Sai Thrinath Gunda, Jing Yang, Rajat Das, Robert Davis, Richard Stopic
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The present disclosure provides Methods, systems, and computer program products for predicting disputed transactions may: obtain transaction-level data associated with one or more prior transactions associated with an account identifier, account-level data associated with the account identifier, and merchant-level data associated with one or more merchants associated with the one or more prior transactions associated with the account identifier; and train a machine learning model, by: providing, as input to the machine learning model, the transaction-level data, the account-level data, and the merchant-level data; receiving, as output from the machine learning model, a prediction of a next transaction associated with …
Hands-Free Image Capture In A Headset With Multi-Keyword Spotter Shortcut
Hands-Free Image Capture In A Headset With Multi-Keyword Spotter Shortcut
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Systems and methods for image capture in headsets are provided. The system may receive, by a headset including a camera, an audio signal comprising a wake-word and a voice command to take a picture. The system may further detect the wake-word of the audio signal by a keyword spotter of the headset. The system may further provide the audio signal to a multi-keyword spotter responsive to detecting the wake-word by the keyword spotter. The system may further send a signal to the camera of the headset to take a picture responsive to detecting by the multi-keyword spotter that a portion …
A Method And A System For Simplifying Tax Declaration Activities For Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises (Smes)/Individual Entrepreneurs (Ies), Aliaa Shafie, Viktoriia Safronova, Zoriana Adamovych
A Method And A System For Simplifying Tax Declaration Activities For Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises (Smes)/Individual Entrepreneurs (Ies), Aliaa Shafie, Viktoriia Safronova, Zoriana Adamovych
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The present disclosure provides a method and system for simplifying tax declaration activities for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises /Individual Entrepreneurs (SMEs/IEs). In the present disclosure, the intention is to provide simplified approach within tax declaration activities, where SMEs/IEs are provided with a card account, based on transactional flows of which the appropriate tax amount is calculated and then automatically requested (i.e. via link to pay) to be paid. Thus, there is no need to submit tax declaration and spend time on that from SMEs/IEs side.
Rsvp Ecmp Bypass Lsps, Chandrasekar Ramachandran, Balaji Rajagopalan, Suresh Kumar Boyapati, Kamalesh Rajendran, Nischal Singh
Rsvp Ecmp Bypass Lsps, Chandrasekar Ramachandran, Balaji Rajagopalan, Suresh Kumar Boyapati, Kamalesh Rajendran, Nischal Singh
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Undesired side effects of too much or too little bandwidth reservation in a bypass label switched path (LSP) can be eliminated or at least reduced by having the point of local repair (PLR) compute multiple bypass LSPs to protect a resource (node and/or link). The bypass LSPs do not have any bandwidth reserved. In the event of a failure on the protected LSP, the PLR uses all the bypass LSPs, as opposed to a single bypass LSP, as backup next hops of the protected LSPs. More specifically, when the protected LSP fails, the data plane in the PLR views each …
Smart Scheduler For Media Platform, Sundaramoorthy Murugesan, Tamojit Chatterjee, Priyanshi Sharma, Kopal Niranjan, Kanishka Mishra, Shravan Nayak, Manoj Mani, Venkata Kanchu
Smart Scheduler For Media Platform, Sundaramoorthy Murugesan, Tamojit Chatterjee, Priyanshi Sharma, Kopal Niranjan, Kanishka Mishra, Shravan Nayak, Manoj Mani, Venkata Kanchu
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This disclosure relates to a scheduler on a media platform that receives scheduling input from the user about a scheduled program event, and then launch the program in its respective streaming application to stream the scheduled content at the scheduled time. The scheduler may be provider agnostic, where the scheduler may schedule programs across streaming applications on a display device. In some examples, the scheduler may provide a list of programs to be streamed on the display device during the scheduled duration. In some examples, the scheduler may be integrated with a calendar application, and the user can use the …
Aluminium Energy Systems, Timo Kauppila
Aluminium Energy Systems, Timo Kauppila
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Enclosed are possible energy system designs based on reactions between Aluminium, Water, and Gallium. The primary enabler for the systems is gallium, which erodes the thin oxide layer on the surface of the aluminum, allowing for it to react with water to form aluminum oxide and hydrogen gas. The resultant hydrogen gas can then be directed to a fuel cell where it combines with air from the atmosphere to produce electricity and water or a combustion chamber to provide mechanical work.
Joint Photo And Caption Semantic Search Using A Visual-Language Model Encoder, D Shin
Joint Photo And Caption Semantic Search Using A Visual-Language Model Encoder, D Shin
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Users can search their photo libraries based on the visual content of their photos, with image-to-text encoder models, object recognition, etc. being used to index photos. However, search techniques that do not utilize user-provided captions or other text associated with photos may not return photos that match a search query when the visual content does not match the query. This disclosure describes the use of a visual-language model (VLM) encoder to encode photos and associated captions (when available) into the same encoder space as that for a search query. The VLM encoder is trained using contrastive loss at training time. …
Method And System For Improving Matching Algorithms, Nicholas Bryan Kurlas, Nirmal Kumar Baid, Kimberly Bella, Robert B.Hedges Jr.
Method And System For Improving Matching Algorithms, Nicholas Bryan Kurlas, Nirmal Kumar Baid, Kimberly Bella, Robert B.Hedges Jr.
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Methods and systems are provided for improving matching algorithms which include: receiving user privacy settings and interest preference data; storing the data in a database; inputting the interest preferences data into a machine learning algorithm to generate at least one match between the user and a merchant, wherein the merchant comprises a subset of a plurality of merchants; generating a data sharing message by: compiling first data associated with the user; filtering the first data based on interest preference data and/or privacy settings data to generate shareable data; and for each merchant associated with a subset of the data associated …
Method And System For Implementing A Mobile Application Interface, Joseph Bennett Woodard, Zachary Temkin
Method And System For Implementing A Mobile Application Interface, Joseph Bennett Woodard, Zachary Temkin
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The present disclosure includes methods, systems and computer program products for implementing a mobile application interface. Particularly, the present disclosure provides a method comprises receiving an input regarding a request to carry out an operation of a mobile payment application; determining data associated with an account identifier of an account of a user associated with the request to carry out the operation of the mobile payment application; and providing a user interface including the data associated with the account identifier to display via the mobile payment application.
Explainable Semantic Retrieval Using Dual Encoder Large Language Models, Marco Bonechi
Explainable Semantic Retrieval Using Dual Encoder Large Language Models, Marco Bonechi
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Semantic matching utilizing large language models (LLMs) to convert text or images into embeddings and scoring them can outperform keyword matching in various ways by matching on meaning rather than word equality. However, semantic matching lacks explainability. This disclosure describes dual-encoder LLM techniques to confer explainability to LLM-based semantic matches within information retrieval systems. Semantic meanings are attached to abstract mathematical embeddings to generate gravitational fields that enable dynamic, high-quality information retrieval as measured by precision/recall, query-understanding, concept-matching, speed, scalability, etc. while providing justifications and user-visible corroborations of search results. Information retrieval is also improved in diversity, personalization, and efficiency, …
Indoor Positioning And Navigation By Semantic Localization Based On Visual Context, D Shin
Indoor Positioning And Navigation By Semantic Localization Based On Visual Context, D Shin
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Conventional indoor localization techniques rely on high-precision indoor 3/6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) positioning of the user device which may be infeasible if the device lacks positioning sensors such as GPS or IMU, if such sensors are turned off, or if the sensors have insufficient accuracy. This disclosure describes techniques the use of language modeling techniques for providing indoor navigation capabilities in the absence of such sensor data based on the local visual context obtained with a camera. Text captions describing frames of the user’s visual context in an indoor space are generated. A collection of captions for the current and recently …
Constructing Motion Trajectory From Sparse Readings From Distributed Sensors, D Shin
Constructing Motion Trajectory From Sparse Readings From Distributed Sensors, D Shin
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While motion sensors can detect when a user is nearby, the sparse measurements from sensors within a physical space cannot capture the user’s trajectory. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to construct the user’s two-dimensional (2D) trajectory within a physical space based on user-permitted motion sensor data by customizing the encoder/decoder embedding layers in the transformer architecture. The encoder maps the sparse input data from individual sensors to a continuous time sequence of mapped sensor events that are provided to the decoder. The decoder can couple the output of the encoder with a 2D array describing the …
Remote Reset Of Baseboard Management Controller (Bmc), N/A
Remote Reset Of Baseboard Management Controller (Bmc), N/A
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This disclosure describes techniques to perform a reset of a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a server device from a network control plane. Per techniques of this disclosure, a specially defined link layer reset packet is transmitted from the network control plane to the computing device that needs to be reset. A reset packet is transmitted from the network level control to initiate reset of the BMC. The reset packet is a link layer packet that includes a predetermined message, e.g., a data frame that includes a reset indicator and a unique identifier of the target device to be reset. …
Reducing Wireless Harmonics Using Dynamic Spread Spectrum Clocking And Dynamic Adaptation Of Mipi Frequency, Karl Chiang, Alan Chen, Jehyoung Lee, Nicholas M. Mcdonnell, Andy Hsu, Lendan Lai, Jerry Lai, Chisa Lin
Reducing Wireless Harmonics Using Dynamic Spread Spectrum Clocking And Dynamic Adaptation Of Mipi Frequency, Karl Chiang, Alan Chen, Jehyoung Lee, Nicholas M. Mcdonnell, Andy Hsu, Lendan Lai, Jerry Lai, Chisa Lin
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Harmonics of digital signals generated by components of a mobile device can get coupled to useful signals via the device antenna and appear as noise and desensitize the receiver. This disclosure describes techniques of dynamic spread spectrum clocking (SSC) and dynamic MIPI (mobile industry processor interface) frequency adjustment to arrest the degradation of receiver/antenna performance caused by harmonics generated by device components. Examples of device components include the camera, the MIPI serial interface of the display, the DDIC (display driver integrated circuit) oscillator, etc. Problematic frequency ranges, e.g., frequency ranges of communication channels rich in harmonics generated by components, are …
Augmenting Large Language Models With Audio Generation Capabilities, Ágoston Weisz, Timo Denk, Mauricio Zuluaga, Alessandro Agostini, Christian Frank, Olivier Siegenthaler
Augmenting Large Language Models With Audio Generation Capabilities, Ágoston Weisz, Timo Denk, Mauricio Zuluaga, Alessandro Agostini, Christian Frank, Olivier Siegenthaler
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Chatbots or conversational agent interfaces utilize large language models (LLMs) to provide text responses to user queries. However, such chatbots are not capable of receiving audio input and providing generated audio as a response. This disclosure describes techniques to augment a LLM with an interface to an audio generation model. The LLM is fine-tuned to train it to leverage an API to access the audio generation model when input queries request query response in audio form. The trained LLM performs reasoning tasks and generates prompts for the audio generation model. The user-provided audio input and the LLM-generated prompts are fed …
Smart Payments: Method And System For Integrating Stored Value Wallets With Visa Instalments Service (Vis), Dhruv Mahajan Mr, Habeeb Shaik Khadar Mr, Paridhi Nahar Ms
Smart Payments: Method And System For Integrating Stored Value Wallets With Visa Instalments Service (Vis), Dhruv Mahajan Mr, Habeeb Shaik Khadar Mr, Paridhi Nahar Ms
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for integrating stored value wallets with a Visa Instalments Service (VIS). The present disclosure suggests uploading a Bank Identification Number (BIN) file including BINs eligible for an Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) payment and creating specific plans associated with the uploaded BINs. Thereafter, a cardholder selects a digital wallet which includes a stored value wallet for payment during the checkout process on an electronic commerce (e-commerce) merchant website or a mobile application. Once the selection process is successful, the present disclosure suggests initiating a VIS Application Program Interface (API) to facilitate …
Enforcing Caps On Documents Donated By Apps Via A Donation Api, Keun Soo Yim
Enforcing Caps On Documents Donated By Apps Via A Donation Api, Keun Soo Yim
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Knowledge of user-specific entities donated by various apps can enhance query answering performance of large language models (LLMs). However, system health issues can be caused if a donor app stores an excessive number of entities in the platform storage. This disclosure describes an app-content donation library with built-in mechanisms to prevent or reduce performance, reliability, and quality issues that can arise when third-party apps directly use a low-level donation API. When an app is uploaded to an application store (that makes apps available for installation on the platform), a verification procedure is performed to ensure that the uploaded app archive …
Adaptive Haptic Experience For Existing User Preferences
Adaptive Haptic Experience For Existing User Preferences
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A system for providing an adaptive haptic experience is disclosed. The system may associate a first device with a user. The system may also associate a second device with the user. The system may also determine a first haptic drive waveform associated with the first device. The system may also select, from a plurality of second haptic drive waveforms based on the first haptic drive waveform, a second haptic drive waveform.
Suggesting Actions Based On User Intent Detection Using A Large Language Model, Anant Chowdhary, Ben Johns
Suggesting Actions Based On User Intent Detection Using A Large Language Model, Anant Chowdhary, Ben Johns
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The content displayed on a device screen is often indicative of a user task and, with user permission, can be analyzed to surface suggestions that can enable users to perform such tasks quickly. However, rules-based systems that rely on pre-stored knowledge about text and other content may fail to correctly recognize and surface the appropriate task and need to be modified for different user contexts. This disclosure describes the use of a large language model (LLM), e.g., an on-device model, to analyze on-screen content and its context to automatically determine user intent. The reasoning capabilities of the LLM enable reliable …
Visa Cloud Connect, Brendan Louis, Peter Pozar, Carl Coles, Padmanaba Pillai, Zaheer Babul, Sanjeev Louis Lopes, Roshan Patel, Jonathan Wood, Ogochukwu Ikenyei
Visa Cloud Connect, Brendan Louis, Peter Pozar, Carl Coles, Padmanaba Pillai, Zaheer Babul, Sanjeev Louis Lopes, Roshan Patel, Jonathan Wood, Ogochukwu Ikenyei
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The present disclosure relates to a technique for providing payment processing infrastructure connectivity to cloud-based clients. The technique recites maintaining a virtual datacenter by the client at virtual private cloud hosted by a public cloud provider and a payment processor’s cloud connect is provided by payment processor enabling cloud-based clients to access its network infrastructure. The technique involves transmitting data from client VPC to payment processor’sVPC which in turn further transmits it to payment processor’s point of presence (PoP). The EA servers located at the payment processor’s PoP are accessed by the client via secure private link, eliminating the need …
Automatically Configuring Mobile Device Alerting Mode Based On User Context, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
Automatically Configuring Mobile Device Alerting Mode Based On User Context, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
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Users need to perform manual operations to modify mobile device alerting settings in many contexts. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, analyze the user’s context such as location, schedule, user’s current level of engagement with the device, etc. to automatically determine an applicable alerting mode for their mobile device. Additionally, data from digital maps regarding location type, location characteristics, etc. as well as real time information regarding events taking place at or near the user’s location can be used in making the determination. Adjusting the alerting mode can include automatically adjusting notification volume levels, timing, and content tailored …
Goldpinch Multi Dimensional Scrolling
Goldpinch Multi Dimensional Scrolling
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The present disclosure generally relates to accessing digital content and, more particularly, selecting digital content via a user interface in a social media platform.
Controlling Smartphone Webcam Mode Using Alternatives To Smartphone Touchscreen, Jayant Chowdhary, Avichal Rakesh, Dipen Patel
Controlling Smartphone Webcam Mode Using Alternatives To Smartphone Touchscreen, Jayant Chowdhary, Avichal Rakesh, Dipen Patel
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This disclosure describes user-friendly techniques to connect a smartphone that is utilized as a web camera (webcam) by pairing the smartphone with a host device. Button-press patterns of a power button or another physical button on the side of a smartphone is used to convey user intent to enable/disable a webcam mode for the smartphone that is connected to a host device. This enables users to turn the webcam mode on/off even when the screen is turned off or facing away from the user, as is the case when a rear camera of the smartphone is used in the webcam …
Semi-Federated Learning Of An Embedding Space Across Multiple Machine Clusters
Semi-Federated Learning Of An Embedding Space Across Multiple Machine Clusters
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Provided are systems and methods for privacy-preserving learning of a shared embedding space for data split across multiple separate clusters of computing machines. In one example, the multiple separate clusters of computing machines can correspond to multiple separate data silos.
Stateful Method For Access Point Discovery Of Wireless Local Area Network Controller, Rahul K Kachalia, Muhammad Imam, Simone Arena
Stateful Method For Access Point Discovery Of Wireless Local Area Network Controller, Rahul K Kachalia, Muhammad Imam, Simone Arena
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Access points (APs) for a wireless local area network (WLAN) can discover a wireless LAN controller (WLC) address (in order to establish a management session with the WLC) through a variety of mechanisms, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) option 43 mechanisms, Domain Name System (DNS) server mechanisms, and Layer 2 (L2) broadcast discovery mechanisms. The DHCP discovery mechanism is the most commonly used mechanism for WLC discovery but is a laborious and manual task that may be prone to errors. Techniques proposed herein provide an easy to use, stateful, and reliable mechanism through which an AP can discover …
Liquid Metal Antennas For Wearable Devices
Liquid Metal Antennas For Wearable Devices
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The novelty in this invention, rather than being about the liquid metal materials themselves, is around the use of liquid metals as antennas in a stretchable substrate (e.g., the metal could be injected into a silicone band or used as a conductive core of a thread for a textile band). The use of liquid metals as antennas in wearables could be the best way to significantly increase antenna surface area without introducing problematic points of failure, as liquid metals are self-healing (e.g., to minor puncture damage) and highly adaptable. This concept could be used in any wearable strap and may …
Daily Activity Summarization Using Sequential Information From A Photo Library, D Shin
Daily Activity Summarization Using Sequential Information From A Photo Library, D Shin
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Photo storage and viewing applications enable users to query their photos and view matching results. However, such applications do not currently provide text summaries based on photos and cannot answer semantic queries. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to leverage a user’s photo library to answer semantic queries. With user permission, an image-text decoder is utilized to generate and store a text summary of individual photos in the user’s photo library. When a user query is received, matching text summaries are identified and used to prompt a large language model that generates an answer to the query. …
Detecting And Correcting Problems In Photos Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Quinn Thuy Tran, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.
Detecting And Correcting Problems In Photos Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Quinn Thuy Tran, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr.
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User captured photos can suffer from a variety of issues such as blurriness, poor lighting, presence of unwanted objects or people, etc. In addition, subjects in the photos can be captured in undesired expressions or poses. This disclosure describes techniques for automatically detecting and fixing problematic aspects of photos by employing generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) techniques. With user permission, a photo can be automatically edited using a suitable generative AI model to fix problems specified in a user-provided prompt. Optionally, a multimodal foundational model can be utilized to detect problems and generate an image correction prompt, along with a …
Predictive Ai-Based Channel Sounding Mechanism, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi, Federico Lovison, Doosan Jung, Qihong Shao
Predictive Ai-Based Channel Sounding Mechanism, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi, Federico Lovison, Doosan Jung, Qihong Shao
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Techniques are presented herein that support examining the channel state information (CSI) matrix that arises from a channel sounding and using the results of that examination to train a machine learning (ML)-based model that considers all of the available wireless parameters at each given measurement. Under the presented techniques, after sufficient training has been completed a CSI matrix may be predicted over short intervals (using, for example, a long short-term memory (LSTM) network) thus allowing a Wi-Fi access point (AP) to reduce the sounding frequency and, as a result, improve overall wireless performance.