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Compilation Photos Generated From High-Quality Faces In A Photo Burst, Jachin Cheng
Compilation Photos Generated From High-Quality Faces In A Photo Burst, Jachin Cheng
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This disclosure describes techniques to generate a group compilation photo that includes subject faces of highest quality from multiple captured photos in a burst of photos captured within a short time interval. With user permission, the burst of photos is captured starting just before an output countdown expires and extending past the countdown. Faces in the captured photos are scored based on quality (e.g., smiles, eyes open, face pose, etc.). The highest scoring faces are automatically combined into a compilation photo. A suggestion to retake the photo is automatically provided if the quality is not sufficiently high. The photographer of …
Techniques For Detecting And Classifying User Behavior Through The Fusion Of Ultrasonic Proximity Data And Doppler-Shift Velocity Data, Sachin Nadig
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This publication describes techniques relating to the detection and classification of user behavior through the fusion of ultrasonic proximity data and Doppler-shift velocity data on a computing device. Through the use of an ultrasonic proximity sensor and, in aspects, a radar sensor, user position and velocity can be combined and analyzed by the computing device to provide accurate user behavior predictions. These user behavior predictions may be used by the computing device to identify unique user behavior features and perform actions based on user behavior identification.
Continuous Use Of Biometric Sensor For Multiple Actions, Justin Eltoft, Albert Chen
Continuous Use Of Biometric Sensor For Multiple Actions, Justin Eltoft, Albert Chen
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This disclosure describes techniques to continuously sense the presence of an authenticated finger on a fingerprint sensor (or other biometric, such as a verified face in the field of view of a camera) of a device to enable multiple secure device actions. A user’s finger and fingerprint are sensed by the device sensor and authentication is performed for the user. The user remains authenticated while the finger maintains contact on the sensor, allowing the user to perform different secure actions without having to re-authenticate for each secure action that is performed while contact between the authenticated finger and the sensor …
3d Adversarial Face Targets, Visa
3d Adversarial Face Targets, Visa
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The present disclosure relates to adversarial face targets that may be used to test performance of a face recognition system. As such, a plurality of images are received by a system. The plurality of images are processed to detect faces and a set of 3D target faces are synthesized. Further, a set of 2D viewpoint configurations corresponding to each 3D target face of the set of 3D target faces are captured based on a projection function. Adversarial perturbations are generated in relation to each 2D viewpoint configuration of the set of 2D viewpoint configurations. Thereafter, a set of 3D digital …
Providing Enhanced Augmented Reality Experiences Using Relationship And Contextual Data, Ram Mohan R, Faisal Siyavudeen, Rajarshee Dhar
Providing Enhanced Augmented Reality Experiences Using Relationship And Contextual Data, Ram Mohan R, Faisal Siyavudeen, Rajarshee Dhar
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Techniques are provided herein for using relationship intelligence of the participants in the meeting to provide a customized Augmented Reality (AR) experiences for each participant of that meeting whose meeting client is AR-ready. These techniques may allow developers to provide their own relationship information and integrate that information with the meeting platform by proposing a set of Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) Software Development Kit (SDK) enhancements described herein.
Intelligent Auto-Activation Of Closed Captions During Online Meetings And Calls For Productive Discussion, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain, Rajarathinam Chidambaram
Intelligent Auto-Activation Of Closed Captions During Online Meetings And Calls For Productive Discussion, Anupam Mukherjee, Vibhor Jain, Rajarathinam Chidambaram
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During a meeting or a call via a collaboration service (which brings together different capabilities such as video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, Web conferencing, and calling), a closed captions feature enables engaging and productive conversations for hard of hearing users and users with different levels of language proficiency. However, such a feature is by default turned off in collaboration meeting and calling services. Additionally, not all of the participants will be aware of such a feature. Techniques are presented herein that offer a unique cognitive algorithm for the intelligent automatic activation of a live captions feature for struggling …
Customized Stage View Generator, Qiujun Zhao
Customized Stage View Generator, Qiujun Zhao
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Customers of online communication and collaboration services (which bring together different capabilities such as video conferencing, online meetings, screen sharing, webinars, Web conferencing, and calling) have been asking for more control over the appearance and the layout of their meetings. In particular, those customers wish to create a custom layout governing how video and shared content will be displayed in a meeting window. Current collaboration services lack such a capability. To address that lack, techniques are presented herein that support the generation of a stage view. Importantly, the generation of such a view requires minimal or no user interaction. Aspects …
Time-Based Anti-Replay Check, Wanli Wu
Time-Based Anti-Replay Check, Wanli Wu
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Techniques are provided herein for a time-based anti-replay check. These techniques may address the 64-bit sequence number recovery issue and the replay check issue in multi-sender security engine and multi-receiver security engine applications.
Meeting Agenda Templates For Automatically Inserting Agendas In Documents, Hakan Uysal
Meeting Agenda Templates For Automatically Inserting Agendas In Documents, Hakan Uysal
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This disclosure describes techniques to provide a meeting agenda template that can be used to create meeting agendas. A user can create a customizable meeting agenda template that includes particular fields for meeting attributes and items typically discussed in meetings. For a particular meeting, the user can input a simple command in a document to cause a meeting agenda derived from the template to be added to the document. Information such as attributes and meeting notes related to the meeting can be input by the user to the agenda fields. Described techniques can reduce the time spent in preparing a …
Timer Function On User Interface Operated With Slider Instead Of +/- - Id-06041, Christian Mohr
Timer Function On User Interface Operated With Slider Instead Of +/- - Id-06041, Christian Mohr
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The present invention, solving the problem of a enabling a user to set a timer function, provides a control method and device of a user interface (UI) having a slider control to adjust and/or set a timer for a kitchen appliance, such as a hob system. The present invention also provides a hob system using the control method. The hob system comprises a touch display unit (e.g., a TFT) and a processor communicating with each other. The UI presented on the display unit allows the user to control the hob system. The UI includes a slider bar, a clock icon, …
Voicemail Information Encoding For Better Call Direction, Igor Dos Santos Ramos, Ramprasad Sedouram, Daniel V. Klein
Voicemail Information Encoding For Better Call Direction, Igor Dos Santos Ramos, Ramprasad Sedouram, Daniel V. Klein
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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for encoding information to outbound voicemail prompts with a computer-readable signature allowing for more efficient voicemail usage and enhanced voicemail privacy. In one embodiment, a computer readable signature is provided at the beginning of an outbound voicemail prompt to signify to a calling computing system it has reached the voicemail, and a computer readable signature is provided at the end of the outbound voicemail prompt to signify to the calling computing system that the outbound voicemail prompt has ended and the voicemail is recording.
Credit Points Exchange, Parayus Mittal, Pravesh Tamrakar, Deepak Kumar Patel
Credit Points Exchange, Parayus Mittal, Pravesh Tamrakar, Deepak Kumar Patel
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for establishing a credit exchange platform that allows users to effectively utilize the unused credit points. In an embodiment, the present disclosure discloses aggregating the credit points accumulated on multiple credit cards using the credit exchange platform. Further, the disclosure suggests allowing the users to redeem the aggregated credit points or sell them to a different user, resulting in effective and best use of the credit points.
Contextualization Transcription Of Non-Verbal Communication, Hp Inc
Contextualization Transcription Of Non-Verbal Communication, Hp Inc
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This disclosure relates to contextualization transcription of non-verbal communication. All transcription applications today take inputs from audio capturing endpoints like microphones and apply voice/speech recognition algorithms and then speech-to-text transformations to transcribe the user’s speech. This transcription can further be enhanced by adding non-verbal inputs (inferred through video AI) to the transcription which can add contextual value to the transcription. This disclosure proposes methods to combine both video and audio inputs and transcribe it to solve this issue. With the use camera AI to add non-verbal context to transcription. This would complement audio transcription. Camera AI would look for common …
On-Path Deployment Of Containers For Low-Latency High-Availability Reliable And Available Wireless (Raw) Communication, Pascal Thubert, Mathieu Monney, Leo Caldarola, Domenico Ficara, Patrick Wetterwald
On-Path Deployment Of Containers For Low-Latency High-Availability Reliable And Available Wireless (Raw) Communication, Pascal Thubert, Mathieu Monney, Leo Caldarola, Domenico Ficara, Patrick Wetterwald
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In an industrial environment, a manufacturing plant is composed of, among other things, sensors, actuators, and controllers that form control loops. Such elements are often referred to as a programmable logic controller (PLC). Techniques are presented herein that allow manufacturing plants to achieve decreased latency and increased reliability by placing the PLCs in a sensor-controller-actuator system closer to each other while minimizing the deployment cost to the extent possible. This is achieved by deploying PLCs as moving containers in an access point (AP) for, as an example, wireless manufacturing plants. Aspects of the presented techniques dynamically deploy PLC applications and …
Technical Possibility Of Controlling A Ventilation System In A Vehicle Via A Device (E.G. Mobile Phone), Axel Unger
Technical Possibility Of Controlling A Ventilation System In A Vehicle Via A Device (E.G. Mobile Phone), Axel Unger
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Cent For Saint, Buddhi Prakash Kothari
Cent For Saint, Buddhi Prakash Kothari
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The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for establishing a “Cent for Saint” platform for enabling unspent money/funds remaining on a prepaid card. The present disclosure suggests determining the amount of money/funds left on a prepaid card. Thereafter, the present disclosure suggests communicating with the prepaid card merchant to request that they release the unspent money to the “Cent for Saint” platform so that it may be donated to a charitable organization. Further, the present disclosure suggests interacting with a prepaid card holder (if the merchant refuses to release the money/funds) by allowing the cardholder to purchase …
Updating The Taskbar With Contextual Actions Relevant To The Application In Focus, Ajinkya S. Barve
Updating The Taskbar With Contextual Actions Relevant To The Application In Focus, Ajinkya S. Barve
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Users perform a variety of actions when interacting with a software application via various user interface (UI) controls provided by the application to perform operations corresponding to the actions. Differences in user interfaces across applications and the requirement to perform complex actions such as multi-click can be confusing and cumbersome. Users benefit from quick and easy access to high-priority contextual actions. This disclosure describes a dynamically updating taskbar provided by a device operating system. With user permission, the taskbar changes dynamically based on the currently active application as the user switches between applications. The taskbar provides quick access to the …
Use Of Direct Time Of Flight (Tof) And Ambient Light Sensor (Als) To Improve Face Auto-Exposure Algorithms, Hp Inc
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The increased prevalence of cameras on consumer electronics and the ability to readily connect with people across the world over the internet have resulted in the marriage of the two technologies to more immersively communicate with others through video conferencing. Additionally, an increase of teleconferencing has placed an ever-growing importance on how people look on camera and their video image quality. One of the most impactful factors in image quality is the lighting environment.
Visual Group In Online Communication And Collaboration Facility Meeting Or Webinar, Alex Wang, Drong Li, Bryan Li
Visual Group In Online Communication And Collaboration Facility Meeting Or Webinar, Alex Wang, Drong Li, Bryan Li
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In a normal work mode, most of a company’s employees will be in an office. If those individuals would like to join a big event (such as an all-hands meeting) as a team or as a group, they are able to gather together in a telepresence (TP) room. Today, as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), many people have chosen a hybrid work mode. Under such a mode, it is not easy for all of a team’s members to gather together in the same TP room since, for example, some of the team members may work from home …
Preview And Download Of Multiplayer Games, Pradip Biswas
Preview And Download Of Multiplayer Games, Pradip Biswas
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Online game players routinely browse and obtain multiplayer games from online game stores. In addition to enabling game downloads, many online game stores offer a trial mode in which a user can preview and play the game without downloading the entire game to their device. This disclosure describes techniques for preview and download of online multiplayer games. Per techniques of this disclosure, an online game store enables users to preview an online game without a full download to their device. The user can also invite other users to simultaneously join the preview. During or subsequent to the preview, any of …
Automated Frequency Coordination (Afc) For Open Pit Mining, Domenico Ficara, Pascal Thubert, Amine Choukir, Alessandro Erta, Stefano Ferrari, Loris Gazzarrini, Arun Khanna, Roberto Muccifora, Vincent Cuissard, Kasi Nalamalapu, Sudhir Jain
Automated Frequency Coordination (Afc) For Open Pit Mining, Domenico Ficara, Pascal Thubert, Amine Choukir, Alessandro Erta, Stefano Ferrari, Loris Gazzarrini, Arun Khanna, Roberto Muccifora, Vincent Cuissard, Kasi Nalamalapu, Sudhir Jain
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The techniques are described herein to facilitate the use of 6GHz frequencies in deployments, such as strip mines, where Access Point (AP) locations change, while still complying with Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) requirements.
A Solution To Enhance Office Conference Experience By Non-Contact Floating-In-Air User Interface, Hp Inc
A Solution To Enhance Office Conference Experience By Non-Contact Floating-In-Air User Interface, Hp Inc
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In the post covid‐19 pandemic era, more and more persons come back to office. Comparing with the ear before covid‐19 pandemic, one important thing changed eco system is user pay more care about to keep themselves away from the virus. Since this design mainly tends to set the product in a public place, considering that if the user directly touches it, it will greatly increase the possibility of pathogenic disease, so the input is selected in a non‐touch manner. User do care the interface they touched in public area and want to make sure if the device can provide a …
Estimating Interpupillary Distance From Eyeball Size, Rees Simmons, Idris Aleem
Estimating Interpupillary Distance From Eyeball Size, Rees Simmons, Idris Aleem
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The interpupillary distance (IPD) of a user’s face is used to frame prescription or non-prescription glasses, or other eyewear. The requirement for an IPD measurement necessitates a physical visit to an optometrist, making online glass (or frame) orders or virtual try-ons (VTO), difficult or infeasible. This disclosure leverages the near constancy of eyeball diameter across the human population to predict the IPD using geometric and/or machine learning techniques. The visible portion of the eyeball (the iris) is used to infer eyeball position. The eyeball position and a priori known size serve as reference dimensions to determine the IPD and/or dimensions …
Passive Infrared (Pir) Sensors With Barker Code Lensing For Detecting Motion Direction, D Shin
Passive Infrared (Pir) Sensors With Barker Code Lensing For Detecting Motion Direction, D Shin
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Applications that require sensing presence or motion of people in a given physical area often employ passive infrared (PIR) sensors for these purposes. Commodity PIR sensors lack the spatial resolution to discern the direction of the person’s movement. This disclosure describes a PIR sensor module that incorporates a Fresnel lenslet system based on Barker codes to provide the spatial resolution needed to detect the direction of motion by leveraging the autocorrelation property of Barker codes. Information on the direction of a user’s motion opens up new possibilities for spatially intelligent applications and services.
Method For Recognizing And Removing Unwanted Marks From Scanned Documents Images Using Specialized Image Classifiers, Hp Inc
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We describe a method for identifying undesirable items in a camera-captured document that should be removed (e. g., one or more fingers holding the document, coffee stains, smudges on paper, etc.) during the process of automatically retouching and enhancing the image of the captured document. In the proposed system, an image processing system is responsible for identifying regions of interest within an image, which are then sent to an image classification module for further recognition and possible removal. This module may be a Machine Learning-based classifier, and is responsible for accurately identifying if a removable object is contained within the …
Infinite Storage Of Expendable Goods For Consumer Access, Dmitrii Boiarshinov
Infinite Storage Of Expendable Goods For Consumer Access, Dmitrii Boiarshinov
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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for maintaining a reliable and sufficient supply of expendable goods in a storage pod designated for consumer access. The storage pod may be configured for the delivery of expendable goods to improve the accessibility of expendable goods to consumers by implementing techniques for managing inventory data, securing access to the storage pod, and using data-driven models to coordinate the resupply of expendable goods.
Optimizing Closed Month Accounting By Utilizing Leases On Data Access And Editing, Shanchi Wang, Xin Chen, L Jagannathan, Yuan Li, Vivi Huang, Chuanqi Shen
Optimizing Closed Month Accounting By Utilizing Leases On Data Access And Editing, Shanchi Wang, Xin Chen, L Jagannathan, Yuan Li, Vivi Huang, Chuanqi Shen
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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for improved efficiency of closed month accounting procedures. More particularly, systems and methods can reduce system queries pertaining to a closed month by utilizing time-based locks, hereinafter “leases,” when preparing entries for the closed month. When a month begins to close, it is provided with a lease and an expiration time of the lease. During the lease, a user can commit entries to the closing month without creating data errors.
Improved Ranking Of Web Results For Image Based Search Using Click Data, N/A
Improved Ranking Of Web Results For Image Based Search Using Click Data, N/A
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The present disclosure describes computer-implemented systems and methods for improving image-based search results by using result click data and/or similar metadata to rank or order results so as to reduce search time and provide more relevant search results. In one particular embodiment, the count of clicks for a result URL may be used to train an search result ranking model for ranking image search results. For a set of search results, the trained model can be used to determine a probability of a user selecting a particular search result in response to a query. The search results may be ranked …
Automatic Suggestion Of Message Category/Tag, Krzysztof Dziuba
Automatic Suggestion Of Message Category/Tag, Krzysztof Dziuba
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Techniques are provided herein for automated suggestion of a message category/tag to help users organize their conversations. This may help filter or highlight important messages (e.g., to improve communication between users), particularly in hybrid work scenarios.
Cooking/Keep Warm Function For Religious Preferences (Sabbath) - Id-06083, Christian Mohr
Cooking/Keep Warm Function For Religious Preferences (Sabbath) - Id-06083, Christian Mohr
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The invention relates to an oven with a Sabbath mode. The oven comprises a control unit with an algorithm enabled to control both a heating arrangement and a user interface in compliance with the Jewish Laws for Sabbath celebration. Furthermore, the heating arrangement is adapted to deliver a low and constant power output without cycling intervals, thereby achieving a relatively low temperature inside an oven cavity. The heating arrangement comprises a two-circuit bottom heater or alternatively a first and a second heating elements in serial connection. Accordingly, a Sabbath mode enables an oven to warm food for a prolonged period …