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Reducing Visually Induced Motion Sickness From Self-Motion In Head Mounted Display Systems
Reducing Visually Induced Motion Sickness From Self-Motion In Head Mounted Display Systems
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Methods and systems for utilizing binocular occlusion in head mounted display systems to reduce motion sickness are disclosed. While experiencing motion within the head mounted display system, the binocular region may be occluded and may present the user with the same image, while decreasing the visual signals sent to the brain, optimizing user experience, and reducing motion sickness.
Reducing Coupled Noise At A Measurement Device
Reducing Coupled Noise At A Measurement Device
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The present disclosure at least describes a method for providing a component configured to obtain a set of control signals; measuring, via an IMU, one or more sensed signals comprising actual noise generated by the component in proximity to the IMU; measuring, from the component to the IMU, a transfer function; inputting, at the transfer function, a set of tuning signals and the set of control signals; outputting, via the transfer function, simulated noise; outputting, via the IMU, the one or more measurements comprising the actual noise; and rejecting the actual noise by generating a denoised IMU output based on …
Drawing Down On The Value Of A Non-Fungible Token (Nft) And Its Associated Asset Via Sale Or Transfer On The Blockchain To Fund And Or Provide Credit Collateral On A Purchase, Samuel James Oliver
Drawing Down On The Value Of A Non-Fungible Token (Nft) And Its Associated Asset Via Sale Or Transfer On The Blockchain To Fund And Or Provide Credit Collateral On A Purchase, Samuel James Oliver
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The present disclosure relates to a method and system for drawing down on an NFT’s value to fund a purchase in real-time. The method comprises transmitting a purchase request to an NFT Application Programming Interface (API) 108 hosted on a payment server seeking an authorization to purchase goods/services using the value of the NFT. In response to the purchase request, the NFT API 108 holding the NFT may transfer, via sale on the blockchain the NFT’s ownership to the merchant to settle and approve the transaction. Alternatively, the NFT API 108 may sell a portion of the NFT to the …
Query Augmentation Using Search Engine Results To Improve Answers Generated By Large Language Models, Hyun Jin Park, Changwan Ryu
Query Augmentation Using Search Engine Results To Improve Answers Generated By Large Language Models, Hyun Jin Park, Changwan Ryu
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Large Language Model (LLM) and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology has the ability to generate responses to questions provided in text format. While such technology produces text content with plausible answers to a given question, it is difficult to judge the trustworthiness of the generated answers. It has been shown that answers generated by such technology may not always be factually accurate. This disclosure describes automated techniques to improve the credibility and confidence of machine-generated answers by using results from a search engine. Per the techniques, search results corresponding to a user input query are used to generate an augmented …
Location Selection For Flagship Retail Store, Bruce Bahnsen, Yan Mayster
Location Selection For Flagship Retail Store, Bruce Bahnsen, Yan Mayster
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Brands benefit from greater exposure to potential consumers. One way to improve exposure is to open a flagship retail store that provides a dedicated brand experience in a new geographic area so that consumers in the region are exposed to the goods and services in person. This disclosure describes techniques to evaluate available locations to determine an appropriate location for a flagship store where the number of potential new consumers that are exposed to the brand is high. Different road segments, including indoor segments are scored based on data indicative of the number of unique and new persons that pass …
Crowd Detection Using Portable Device Sensors, N/A
Crowd Detection Using Portable Device Sensors, N/A
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This disclosure describes techniques to monitor and predict the formation of crowds and to provide warnings before they reach potentially dangerous levels. With user permission, an ad-hoc wireless network is established between individual devices present within a region. Real-time localization and sensory information are obtained using peripheral or host electronic devices. Crowd density, as estimated by the sensors and as communicated over a wireless network, is projected onto a map that includes three-dimensional model constraints. A real-time, discrete, color-coded, occupation density is calculated. If the number of people within a region exceeds a certain threshold, an advisory or warning is …
Illumination Metric For Location Value, Navigation, And Parking Convenience, Yan Mayster
Illumination Metric For Location Value, Navigation, And Parking Convenience, Yan Mayster
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Poorly illuminated driving or walking routes may be unpleasant or less safe. Current digital map and navigation applications do not explicitly factor illumination conditions into the navigation metric. This disclosure describes techniques to build a knowledge base of illumination of road segments and parking locations based on pre-existing data sources such as aerial/overhead imagery and street-level imagery. The knowledge base can be utilized for navigation route determination that takes into account illumination conditions, as well as for longer term decision making such as assigning scores to physical properties that can help users make property rental or purchase decisions.
System Including Conoscope Lens For Measuring Polarization Characteristics Of Wide Field-Of-View Lenses, Aiqing Chen, Xiaobo Tian, Weihua Gao, Chandra Sekhar Kakani
System Including Conoscope Lens For Measuring Polarization Characteristics Of Wide Field-Of-View Lenses, Aiqing Chen, Xiaobo Tian, Weihua Gao, Chandra Sekhar Kakani
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A lens measurement system including 1) a light source, 2) a lens mounting support configured to hold a lens so that light emitted by the light source is incident on the lens, 3) a conoscope lens positioned to receive light refracted by the lens, and 4) a polarization camera positioned to receive light emitted from the conoscope lens.
Dynamic Torso Reflection Filtering For Interactive Binaural Spatial Audio Based On Biologically Constrained Imu Drift Compensation, Philip Robinson, William Owen Brimijoin Ii, Antje Ihlefeld
Dynamic Torso Reflection Filtering For Interactive Binaural Spatial Audio Based On Biologically Constrained Imu Drift Compensation, Philip Robinson, William Owen Brimijoin Ii, Antje Ihlefeld
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An audio uses information uses a biologically constrained IMU drift compensation for audio spatial rendering to drive a dynamic filtering process to better reproduce the acoustic effects of head on torso orientation on the HRTF.
Highly Flexible Cni-Agnostic Server Agent With Support For Dual-Tor Ecmp And Control Plane High Availability, Gautam Venkataramanan, Mandeep Singh Dhami
Highly Flexible Cni-Agnostic Server Agent With Support For Dual-Tor Ecmp And Control Plane High Availability, Gautam Venkataramanan, Mandeep Singh Dhami
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Techniques are presented herein that support a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) daemon that may advertise routes and attract any traffic towards a server. Aspects of the presented techniques support dual-top of rack (ToR) equal cost multipath (ECMP) routing and Kubernetes (K8s) control plane application programming interface (API) server high availability (HA) without being tied to any particular Container Network Interface (CNI) implementation.
Payment Card As A Unique Identifier For Identification And Delayed Payment, Samuel Oliver
Payment Card As A Unique Identifier For Identification And Delayed Payment, Samuel Oliver
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The present invention provides a system and method for automatically identifying, assigning, aggregating and generating a bill for a customer using a unique identifier, where the unique identifier is a primary account number (PAN). The present system obtains the payment credentials through a payment device from the customer before placing the order or while ‘paying’ for the order and instead of immediately processing a standard payment, the system generates a hash value by performing a hash algorithm. The generated hash value is stored and or matched to the customer. The merchant or ePOS then assigns the order details to the …
Adaptive Meeting Room Temperature Control, Joel Obstfeld, Suprabha P, Shivani Palaniappan, Pratishtha Yadav, Apoorva Sharma
Adaptive Meeting Room Temperature Control, Joel Obstfeld, Suprabha P, Shivani Palaniappan, Pratishtha Yadav, Apoorva Sharma
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Smart buildings are typically able to facilitate temperature controls in meeting rooms today by monitoring temperature within the rooms using sensors, thermostat devices, and the like. Presented herein are techniques through which room temperature can be adapted in a more dynamic manner, by accounting for the number of people in a room and heat from electronic devices either present in or carried into the room. This adaptive temperature control uses real-time factors that other solutions fail to include, thereby providing both improved comfort and reduced power consumption.
Revisiting Localized 3d Photographs Using Augmented Reality, Kathleen Alexandra Bryan, Shiblee Hasan
Revisiting Localized 3d Photographs Using Augmented Reality, Kathleen Alexandra Bryan, Shiblee Hasan
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This disclosure describes techniques that couple panoptic reconstruction with image localization and tracking to enable users to revisit their photographs in three-dimensional augmented reality at any time after the photo is taken. A user that takes a two-dimensional photo of some scenery, e.g., a city skyline, and then, years later, revisits the spot where the photo was taken is offered a user interface, e.g., a virtual slider in the field-of-view to see a before and after comparison of how the scenery has changed since the user’s last visit. Based on location similarity, the current view is matched, and the user …
Personalizing Audio Content Played While On Hold During A Phone Call, Joseph Johnson Jr, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shiblee Hasan
Personalizing Audio Content Played While On Hold During A Phone Call, Joseph Johnson Jr, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shiblee Hasan
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Calls made to a business by a customer, e.g., to request support, are often put into a queue waiting for a human agent to be available. During the hold time, canned music or other audio is played back to the caller. Such audio is low quality owing to the limited capacity of the telephony channel, is not personalized, and repeated multiple times till an agent becomes available, providing an unsatisfactory calling experience. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to detect canned audio and replace it with high fidelity music or other content. With user permission, the replacement …
Business Location Evaluation For Advertising Partnerships, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
Business Location Evaluation For Advertising Partnerships, Yan Mayster, Bruce Bahnsen
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Businesses benefit from being able to arrive at an accurate valuation for the locations they own/ operate for the purposes of advertising. Such valuation can be based on the amount and composition of the traffic passing through that location. This disclosure describes techniques to construct an index for a business location by using relevant customer, geographical, and shopping data to help businesses arrive at an accurate value for the location for advertising purposes. Businesses can offer advertising at their location and choose from available locations to locate their advertisements. A marketplace for physical advertising can also be established using the …
Quantify Peer-To-Peer (P2p) Payment Trust, Justin Marciano
Quantify Peer-To-Peer (P2p) Payment Trust, Justin Marciano
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The present disclosure provides a method and system which enables P2P payment application interfaces to access data required to calculate a social accountability metric comprising a trust score indicative of good payment behavior or bad payment behavior of users using the P2P applications. Depending on the score calculated, the trust level will be assigned as “Very Low,” “Low,” “Medium,” “High,” or “Very High” for the P2P payment account of the users. This score incentivizes users to use the P2P apps more frequently and encourages good payment behavior while allowing people to make their own decisions.
Using Epbf To Support Data Plane Observability With Traffic Mirroring, Xueqiang (Sherman) Ma, Kalyan K. Ghosh
Using Epbf To Support Data Plane Observability With Traffic Mirroring, Xueqiang (Sherman) Ma, Kalyan K. Ghosh
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Techniques are presented herein that support a method for using the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) to perform data plane traffic mirroring at an eXpress Data Path (XDP) level to provide data plane traffic observability. The presented techniques, which may be referred to herein as XeS, encompass an XeS agent component at a user level as well as an XeS server (i.e., an eBPF bytecode program) at a kernel level. The components may communicate through shared S-Map and F-Map tables. The presented techniques process Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) source traffic efficiently at the XDP level immediately after packets arrive at …
Adaptive Personalized Navigation Guidance Based On Co-Presence Detection, Matthew Sharifi
Adaptive Personalized Navigation Guidance Based On Co-Presence Detection, Matthew Sharifi
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Navigation guidance provided via digital map applications and/or in-car infotainment systems includes turn-by-turn instructions. Personalization of such instructions, e.g., based on a user’s places visited or routes taken, can make navigation easier and more natural. However, if there is a co-passenger in the vehicle when personalized navigation guidance is provided, it may inadvertently reveal information about places that a user has visited. Per techniques described in this disclosure, co-presence information is detected based on various factors such as determining whether additional devices that do not belong to the user are present, based on ambient sound detection, based on in-vehicle sensors …
Naming Shared Links From Message Content, Liy Opor
Naming Shared Links From Message Content, Liy Opor
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Sometimes users in chat services post links to documents or wiki pages. These links may direct to a source that members of the chat team are authorized to access, but that the chat service is not, itself, authorized to access. Therefore, the chat service may not be able to load the shared document or web page in order to obtain a readable title for displaying in place of a potentially cryptic link URL. As a result, many links posted to a chat team may be displayed as mere URLs, which are difficult to distinguishable from each other. Even worse, some …
Intelligent Ground Clearance Information System, Axel Unger
Intelligent Ground Clearance Information System, Axel Unger
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Automatically Re-Enabling Eye Gaze Share, Alan Gatzke, Ty Thorsen
Automatically Re-Enabling Eye Gaze Share, Alan Gatzke, Ty Thorsen
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In a remote collaboration session in which participants are not in the same room, participants may wear three dimensional (3D) headsets and share their eye gazes with other participants. Participants may briefly mute audio and stop sharing their eye gaze. Currently, when a participant wants to unmute audio and resume sharing their eye gaze, the participant must select two separate buttons – one to unmute audio and one to reshare their eye gaze. Techniques described herein provide for automatically re-enabling eye gaze sharing when unmuting the audio if eye gaze share had previously been selected.
Aided Remote Rendering In A 5g-As-A-Service Mobile Network Environment, Vimal Srivastava, Sri Gundavelli
Aided Remote Rendering In A 5g-As-A-Service Mobile Network Environment, Vimal Srivastava, Sri Gundavelli
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)-based mobile applications are becoming increasingly computation-intensive, memory-consuming, and power-consuming. In addition, end devices usually have stringent energy consumption, compute, and memory limitations for running a complete offline AI/ML inference on-board. Many AI/ML applications currently offload inference processing from mobile devices to internet data centers (IDC). Techniques presented herein provide for discovering the closest offload server so that UE can offload some of the rending work to the offload server.
Controller-Driven Event-Based Network Heat Map Visualisation, Praveen Kumar, Navdeep Sood
Controller-Driven Event-Based Network Heat Map Visualisation, Praveen Kumar, Navdeep Sood
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Network controllers have available to them all manner of data from the different network elements and the various network links. Techniques are presented herein that leverage that data to support a new heat map concept. The presented techniques begin with the generation of node-level heat maps and services-level heat maps. Those artifacts may be employed to study the impact of a given failure on the nodes and the services that are present in a network. The presented techniques also support the development of a network-level heat map from those artifacts. The model that is supported by the presented techniques is …
A Kind Of Connection Method Used For A Food Sensor - Id-06222, Paolo Markovina
A Kind Of Connection Method Used For A Food Sensor - Id-06222, Paolo Markovina
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The present invention relates to a method for reliable and quick connection and power supply of a cooking oven temperature probe cable in all heating and cooking thermal and humidity environmental conditions within the home appliance cooking oven cavity.
Lightweight Companion Application For Onboarding And Verification Of New Users For Receiving Digital Payments, Dillon Amadeo, Yohan Launay, Kiat Chuan Tan, Nizam Anuar
Lightweight Companion Application For Onboarding And Verification Of New Users For Receiving Digital Payments, Dillon Amadeo, Yohan Launay, Kiat Chuan Tan, Nizam Anuar
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Digital money transfers via payment platforms require that the sender and recipient of the money transfer both be users of the same platform. However, to access payment platform features, users need to install and configure an application on a user device, which some users may be unable or unwilling to do. This disclosure describes a lightweight solution for recipients not yet registered on a payment platform that provides a quick way to get onboarded and verified on the platform, link financial accounts, and receive incoming money transfers. Users who are onboarded via the lightweight solution can at a later time …
Dynamically Responsive Search Result Weblinks, Diego Baron, Judy Mou, Andrew Silverman, Pavan Kuppili
Dynamically Responsive Search Result Weblinks, Diego Baron, Judy Mou, Andrew Silverman, Pavan Kuppili
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When a general purpose search engine is used to search dynamic databases, outlinks in the search results page simply point to the relevant databases, without specifying the filtering parameters entered as part of the search query. When the user clicks on a search result and is redirected to the target webpage, the user is forced to re-enter filtering parameters that were already provided as part of the search query. This disclosure describes dynamic search result outlinks where user-provided search parameters are used, with user permission, to automatically fill information in the web page pointed to by the outlink. This ensures …
Computer Vision Triggered By Voice - Id-05992, Paolo Markovina
Computer Vision Triggered By Voice - Id-05992, Paolo Markovina
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A kitchen appliance is described, which is configured for voice control and/or voice feedback. Further, a method for monitoring and/or controlling a cooking process via voice control and/or voice feedback is described. Also, a computer program is described.
Virtual Food Probe - Id-06008, Paolo Markovina
Virtual Food Probe - Id-06008, Paolo Markovina
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The invention relates to an oven system and a method for operating the oven system. An oven system comprises a heating unit, a camera unit, a detection unit, and a control unit.
Configuring And Auditing Vpc Network Traffic Using A Private Hyperledger Blockchain, Kishore Jagannath
Configuring And Auditing Vpc Network Traffic Using A Private Hyperledger Blockchain, Kishore Jagannath
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Organizations with cloud computing operations set up connectivity between their networks to facilitate secure, low cost communication. Such inter-organization connectivity opens up network boundaries to applications running in networks that belong to cross-border business units or organizations. Participating organizations require secure, tamper-proof audit trails of communications across network boundaries without relying on the cloud provider. This disclosure describes blockchain-based techniques to provide trust, immutability, and independent verifiability of audit logs of network traffic between organizations. A permission-based blockchain built using hyperledger fabric is provided to enable efficient audit of network communication between networks belonging to different parties or entities. A …
A Method For Mitigating Underfitting Issue In Time Series Model Using Regressors, Pengfei Li, Pei Yang, Shuo Wang, Zhuoyi Wang, Dan Wang
A Method For Mitigating Underfitting Issue In Time Series Model Using Regressors, Pengfei Li, Pei Yang, Shuo Wang, Zhuoyi Wang, Dan Wang
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The present disclosure focuses on mitigating underfitting issue in time series model using regressors. The present disclosure replaces the large parameter with a new structure. The new structure may include a few layers of smaller models. Specifically, the “smaller” model may be defined as the number of parameters for the model may be smaller but can handle all the features. Thus, each smaller model is trained with all the data points. The smaller models may generate intermediate predictions which may be fed as the input to the next smaller model present in the next layer. As a result, the DPP …