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Systems And Methods For Adjusting Lighting To Improve Image Quality, N/A, Joe Benassi

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Many cameras or other imaging systems can capture images (e.g., photographs) with poor lighting conditions that result in low-quality images. For instance, it may be too dark and/or backlit to use a smartphone that has a camera to take photos in an indoor environment. As an example, light reflected from colored furniture and/or walls can make people look less healthy and can destroy an experience of using the smartphone to take photos. Thus, poor lighting conditions often result in low-quality photographs.

Infrared Patterns For Device Control, Matthew Tait

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Many devices can be networked to a central device such that a user can control various devices using the central device. Typically, a user can control a specific device from an application provided by the central device. For example, the application can show a list of devices, and the user can select the specific device and then start controlling it. Alternatively, each different device may require its own distinct application. However, it is time-consuming for a user to find a specific device from a long list of devices or to open and use each individual application to control each individual …

Smart Wallet, Matthew Tait

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A physical wallet can contain many important items such as funding instruments and/or identification cards. Examples of physical funding instruments can include cash, checks, credit cards, debit cards, coupons, gift certificates, gift cards, and the like. Examples of identification cards can include driver’s licenses, social security cards, passports, and the like. However, if such physical funding instruments and/or identification cards are lost or stolen or if the physical wallet is lost or stolen, it is difficult to find them and it is time-consuming to get a substitute. Thus, techniques for preventing loss of a physical wallet and/or items stored therein …

Internet Of Things Cross Device Theming, Matthew Tait

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Many Internet of Things devices are networked to a central device such that a user can control various devices using the central device. Typically, the various devices are from different manufacturers. Each manufacturer may assign a theme setting to a device such that a control application provided by the central device for that device can display the assigned theme setting of that device. However, a user cannot change the assigned theme setting of that device, thereby ending up with clashing styles and personalities across multiple devices within their home. Thus, techniques for a user to customize theme settings for devices …

Smart Drink Bottle, Matthew Tait

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Drinking water is essential for health. The appropriate amount of drinking water per day varies depending on physical activity, age, health issues, and environmental conditions. For example, for those who work in a hot climate, it is better to drink up more water. However, people may drink water at the office, in a restaurant, during workout, or at any other suitable places. It is difficult to know how much water a person drinks per day and if the amount of drinking water is sufficient for health. Thus, a system for keeping track of the amount of drinking water is needed.

Smart Rubbish Bins, Matthew Tait

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Many people are concerned with the environmental impact of their consumption habits. A significant contributor to an individual’s environmental impact is the amount and type of waste that is produced by that individual. Of particular importance is the environmental impact of how much waste ends up in a landfill, as compost, or is recycled.

Smart Floor For In Room Detection, Matthew Tait

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Determining the state of rooms, including whether a room is occupied, can improve the functionality and operation of many devices and services that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Furthermore, sensors associated with a smart floor can perform operations including detecting the state of a room and communicating the state to other IoT devices that can perform operations based on the state of the room (e.g., turning on lights when a person is detected in the room).

Augmented Reality Interface For Visualizing And Interacting With Iot Devices, Christopher Ross

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As the proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) devices increases, so too does the complexity of interaction models and the need for a clear interface with which a user can interact with the complex coordinated tasks that are taking place. The benefits of a more effective augmented reality interface are especially relevant to the many devices that lack a direct interface of their own.

Smart Playing Cards, Charbel Zaarour

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Technology can be used to enhance the experience of existing games including card games. One way this can be accomplished is through the use of near field communications to detect the state of playing cards and use the detected state of the cards to perform experience enhancing actions associated with their respective state. For example, the gameplay experience while playing cards can be enhanced in a variety of ways including keeping score of a game (e.g., a player’s cribbage score), providing special effects (e.g., visual effects or sound effects associated with a card game), and preventing cheating.

Smart Manholes, N/A

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Objects commonly situated in the environment can be used to gather a variety of information about the environment proximate to the respective objects. For example, smart manholes (e.g., manholes configured with sensors and communications devices) or smart manhole covers can include a suite of sensors that can detect various states or events including air pollutants, earthquakes, flooding, gas leaks, sewage, environmental contamination, ultraviolet levels. Furthermore, smart manholes or smart manhole covers can be used to communicate with other devices and perform more complex operations including traffic monitoring.

Clean Filter Removal System With Rotational Device, Hp Inc

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To prevent contamination of a powder-based additive manufacturing printer

with waste powder collected by a vacuum pump filter, the filter is housed in a container

that is removable from the printer with the filter inside, for cleaning in an external

environment.

Easy Sieve Cleaning System In Material Management Station, Hp Inc

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To clean a powder sieve in an additive manufacturing printer, an aspiration

system integrated into the mesh sieve is connectable to an external vacuum cleaner to

aspirate waste powder without damage to the delicate mesh.

Calibration Of Service Station Height Adjustment Using Drop Detector, Hp Inc

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In a powder-based additive manufacturing, a technique to calibrate service

station height at the customer site uses optical drop detection to indicate the direction in

which the service station is to be moved to bring it into an acceptable position.

Augmented Search For Physical Documents, Hp Inc

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In recent years, we are used to searching words in electronic documents such as PDFs,

Powerpoints, Word Documents, and so on. Whenever we have a large document and we

need to find a specific word or sentence - with a few keyboard commands - we can easily

find it, and all occurrences are highlighted to make locating it easier. On the other hand,

when we think about physical documents (e.g. printed documents, magazines), there is

no such mechanism that allows us to search words or sentences on it. Our method helps

creating a search query on physical documents by allowing …

Using Blockchain To Simplify Session Initiation Protocol Overload Control, Kaustubh Inamdar, Ram Mohan R, Gonzalo Salgueiro

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Techniques are described herein by which the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server overload problem may be significantly simplified by using a distributed system where transactions can be authorized and stored. For example, a technology like blockchain may enable a centralized, shared, and secure transaction database to be used to communicate SIP server overload information. SIP server overload information may be shared between servers that are part of a trust domain. The trust domain may be confined within a network or span across network boundaries (e.g., between enterprise edges / SIP trunk providers / SIP calling cloud providers).

Vehicle Localization Service, Christine Mcgavran, Richard Bukowski, Demyn Plantenberg

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An evaluation system and related processes are provided for evaluating computing systems associated with vehicle mapping, navigation, and/or control. An evaluation system can include ground truth data generated based on sensor data from an evaluation sensor system as an evaluation vehicle traverses a travelway. A trial system can be evaluated by comparing one or more outputs of the trial system with the ground truth data at the evaluation system. The ground truth data can be projected onto a map associated with a trial vehicle position as it maneuvers along a travelway. Simulated output data of the trial system can be …

Controlled Vent In Capping System For A Printhead, Hp Inc

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Inkjet printers rely on liquid ink that is ejected from a printhead onto paper. To maintain proper

function, the environment surrounding the nozzles at the printhead must be controlled with

respect to factors such as humidity and rate of change of pressure.

Surfacing Images Of A Collection Based On Device Context, Matthew Sharifi, Katsiaryna Naliuka, Abhanshu Sharma

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Users have extensive collections of digital photographs or videos on their devices. This disclosure describes techniques to select images from a user’s collection that are relevant to the current context of the device and the user, and display the selected images on a device. The images are labelled with attributes relevant to the context at the time of capture of the images. At a later time, display of past images is triggered based on a variety of conditions related to current context and device activity. Past images having attributes that match the current context are selected and displayed. Displayed images …

Detection And Visualization Of Anomalous Printers Using Machine Learning, Hp Inc

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The method described below will predict printer models showing anomalous behavior by going through

the data and find out exceptional behaving models quickly and more accurately. It will generate

interactive plots to observe different patterns and distributions followed across individual countries and

worldwide.

A Novel Method To Effectively Manage Rack Space Units In Datacenter, Kartheekasasanka Kaipa, Mahesh R M

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In a typical datacenter several new servers, switches, network and storage devices are ordered and kept in a docking area for a long time before hosting them into rack space units by system administrators or asset management teams.

It is a cumbersome task to refer documents or manually determine and assign free rack space units to host new devices. Currently, there are no effective solutions to instantly identify free Rack space units and assign free Rack units as soon as devices arrived in docking area of the datacenter.

The proposed invention helps identify all the free Rack units in each …

Blow-By-Cooler, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Calibration Of Rf Ics In Separated Modem / Rf Part, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Creation Of Digital Notes Of The Vehicle Environment Through Gesture Control, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Rotatorial Control Element With Plain Bearing Of The Approval Plunger., Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

3d-Wheel Housing-Isolation From 2d-Fleece-Part, Verena Schwaiger

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No abstract provided.

Additional Security For Stored Print Jobs, Hp Inc

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Modern printers have a provision to receive print jobs from remote client devices over network and keep them as stored jobs.

At the time of sending a print job, user (at client device) has a choice to associate a PIN with the job and have it stored in

encrypted format on the printer. Even though the combination of the two seem good enough to secure user’s print data, but

this safety relies totally on the confidentiality of the PIN – once the PIN has been leaked, the data safety is compromised.

In today’s world when computing machines are capable of …

Fair Scheduling For Low Latency And High Throughput Storage Systems, Guillaume Ruty, Jerome Tollet, Aloys Augustin

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Techniques are described herein for storage systems to guarantee low latency for small requests while maintaining the system’s optimal overall throughput. It batches requests, classifies them, fairly allocates resources to them, and provides a mechanism to expedite the processing of small requests. In today’s cloud environments, it is critical that diverse applications run by multiple users can share access to generic storage systems without affecting each other’s performance.

Soft Cover Internal Structure, That Can Provide The Stability While The Soft Cover Is Deployed In Reading Mode (Around 110~120 Tilting Degree), Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of notebook’s soft cover, which is utilized as stand to

support notebook’s gesture as well as a protection piece. That is requiring certain structure to

offer the stability of standing, in the same time it also need to be flexible enough to wrap the

notebook as a protective cover.

System And Method For Removing Unwanted Content From Getting Printed Using Machine Learnng Techniques, Hp Inc

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Printers are used to print content for purposes of sharing, and therefore, it becomes necessary to

control and monitor the content that is being printed. At home scenario, it could be that the parents

would like to control what their kids print, whereas at enterprises, it becomes necessary to ensure

forbidden content is not allowed to print. The current document outlines a way by which this can be

achieved. Machine learning is used to identify patterns within the content that are not allowed, and

thereby avoid them getting printed. The approach uses a content packetizer to packetize the stream,

and …

Multi-Stage 48v To Point-Of-Load (Pol) Power Architecture For Ultra-High Current Processing Unit Applications

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This document describes a multi-stage power architecture as applied to 48V, ultra-high current applications. The multi-stage system can provide high power density within a small footprint and support high-current operations by decoupling the density, efficiency, and bandwidth requirements of the last stage supplying input to the voltage regulator for the PoL from the other stages of the architecture that supply input to the rest of the voltage regulators on the board. The described multi-stage system is more cost and resource-efficient than currently available power architectures, and can be implemented within smaller and smaller processing unit applications with increasing power density …