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Drone With Mirror To Support Light And Driver Assistance Systems For Cars, Daniel Hoppe

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DRONE WITH MIRROR TO SUPPORT LIGHT AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS FOR CARS

Audi Day Makeup Look (Adml), Daniel Hoppe

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AUDI DAY MAKEUP LOOK (ADML)

Storage Compartment For A Cleaning Cloth In The Motor Vehicle, Daniel Hoppe

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STORAGE COMPARTMENT FOR A CLEANING CLOTH IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE

Intelligent Windshield Cleaning System, Daniel Hoppe

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INTELLIGENT WINDSHIELD CLEANING SYSTEM

Advertisement Conversion Detection Via Time-Base Geolocation, Indusekar Ponnapa Reddy, Lakshmi Dabbiru

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The systems and methods described herein provide for attribution of conversions based on time-based geolocation information. Although primarily discussed in terms of movies, these methods and systems may be applied to other categories and events with determined locations and times, such as theater events, concerts, restaurants with particular timed reservations, night clubs, etc. – i.e. any category of event, attraction, service, or other entity in which visiting a location at a particular time has significance.

Differential Sonar, Honglei Wu

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Sonar is used to track in-room activity. A sonar device provides acoustic location and tracking of multiple objects that are co-present in a room. A sender/receiver in the sonar device directs a sound wave toward the multiple objects and collects the reflected sound waves from the multiple objects over multiple time intervals. The echo characteristics of the co-present multiple objects in the reflected sound waves collected over the multiple time intervals are differentially analyzed to determine the locations of, and track movement of, individual objects of the multiple objects.

Device And Method To Reduce Number Of Sensing Pins Of A Linear Capacitive Sensor, Maurice Alou

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Disclosed herein is a device and method to reduce the number of sensing pins in a controller. The device includes a linear sensor, a plurality of traces, and a controller. The linear sensor detects a position of a finger and transmits signals to the controller. The controller includes sensing pins, which are connected to the linear sensor by the plurality of traces. Each of the traces shares the sensing pins with several other traces, thereby reducing the required number of pins. Further, the traces and pins are mapped carefully in order to avoid duplication of two neighbors.

Platform For Location And Time-Based Content Sharing, Alexander Haubold

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Private collections of images and other media can be of interest to individuals and groups beyond the owner of those collections. This disclosure describes a platform where private collections of media can be shared, with user permission, with others who share a common interest in the location and time associated with contents of these collections. The platform is configured as a private group and functions as a social circle to share images and other media around the spatial and temporal contexts of the contents of the media. The collections can be used, for example, to archive the historical changes at …

Securing A Vehicle Mounted Camera System, Mark Yerdon, Lawrence Piatti, Helen Yoo

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Vehicle mounted camera systems are typically hosted by structures that are bolted in or clamped onto the roof of the vehicle. However, to mount these structures, modifications to the vehicle, e.g., drilling holes, are necessary. This is infeasible in certain locations, e.g., in countries that do not allow even minor modifications to vehicle body or structure. This disclosure describes techniques to mount a camera system using bolting and bonding mechanisms that do not make changes to the vehicle body or structure.

Worm Gear Driven Deployable Structure For Vehicle Mounted Camera System, Mark Yerdon, Lawrence Piatti, Helen Yoo

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Vehicle roof mounted camera systems can collide with external structures with low height clearances. A stowable camera mast can help vehicles with roof mounted camera systems navigate structures and overhead obstructions (e.g., parking garages) by lowering the camera system to pass through without collision.

Electro-mechanical actuation can be employed to allow vehicle operators to deploy (e.g., raise) or stow (e.g., lower) the camera system from the ground level without having to climb onto the roof of the vehicle and manually change the position of the camera. The present techniques employ a worm gear and wheel gear driven mechanism to help …

Breakaway Structure For A Vehicle Mounted Camera System, Mark Yerdon, Lawrence Piatti, Helen Yoo

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Vehicle mounted camera systems may collide with external objects during movement of the vehicle. Such collisions can damage the camera system, the mounting structure, and the vehicle. Techniques described here seek to reduce damage in such instances. During a collision, the vehicle mounted camera system structure is caused to break away from the colliding object such that damage is limited to parts of the mounting structure that can be replaced easily.

Spam Detection For Outgoing And Incoming Calls, Alex Jacobson, Tuna Toksoz

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System and method are disclosed to detect spam in outgoing or incoming calls on a telephone device. The system includes a server running a machine-learning algorithm coupled to a spam detection service running on the device that detects spam during an outgoing or incoming call. When the user places a call; the device listens to the conversation and extracts identifiable characteristics through acoustic characterization. These characteristics constituting a signature are received by the spam detection service to identify spam. If a spam call is detected, the user is warned through an audio cue during the call and ends the call. …

Group Targeting For Video Ads Based On Location Context, Indusekar Ponnapa Reddy, Lakshmi Dabbiru

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The systems and methods described herein provide for selecting additional content based on profiles of a group of viewers, rather than a profile of a single viewer controlling the group viewing session. A content request may include an IP address and device identifier, and a content selection server may retrieve other device identifiers associated with the IP address. The content selection server may select content based on the aggregation of profiles of users corresponding to the retrieved device identifiers, rather than just that of the user associated with the device providing the initial content request.

Mechanism For Displaying Three-Dimensional Objects Alongside Video In Virtual Reality, Aayush Upadhyay, Neel Rao, Jay Kornder, Christopher Crawford

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The systems and methods described herein provide for displaying 3D objects alongside video or other content within a virtual reality environment. The user can see the video but can also see an object next to, behind, above, below, or positioned elsewhere in relation to the video. The user may be able to interact with that object. The object may or may not be related to the video. The object could be placed anywhere in the scene in relation to the video.

Natural Language Video Processing (Machine Learning-Based Identification, Search, Extraction), Nathan Frey, Lloyd Thompson, Jeff Chien, Wade Norris, Brian Mulford

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The systems and methods described herein provide for a natural-language to generative video process using language-classification and knowledge graph identifiers to find frame segments within a codex of videos that depict the scene described. The mechanics necessary for converting speech to meaningful entities that can be matched to non-text images/videos serve as an underlying basis for generative video.

Displaying Images Via Palette Switching, Christopher Phoenix

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The present disclosure describes systems and methods that can display several images by switching between two or more color palettes corresponding to the several images. More particularly, the present disclosure enables a computing system and methods for controlling the same, to display an image by using image data that includes a single set of pixel data associated with the several images, and multiple sets of color palette data corresponding respectively to each image to display. The system can use the same pixel data to display any selected one of the several images by switching to a color palette corresponding to …

Coordinated Smart Alarm

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The present disclosure provides systems and methods that coordinate sleep monitor devices worn to monitor sleep quality and determine the most effective sleep phase to wake a user. The systems and methods of the present disclosure can allow sleeping partners to wake at a mutually optimal time for each. In particular, existing sleep monitors solely account for the wearer of the sleep monitor and although a vibration, sounds, or other waking mechanism can be intended to only wake such wearer, often a sleeping partner is woken as the wearer of the sleep monitor wakes and moves about. Thus, if both …

Fuse Comfort Key, Daniel Hoppe

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FUSE COMFORT KEY

Force By An Hv Component, Daniel Hoppe

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FORCE BY AN HV COMPONENT

Identification Of Smart Devices In Proximity To A User, Maxwell Sills, Robert Gordon

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Smart devices continue to increase in popularity, availability, and functionality. However, to make use of a smart device, a user must first discover the smart device and determine how to interact with it. The user could search a local area using an augmented reality or identification system to highlight, determine capabilities of, and present instructions for interacting with nearby devices. Alternatively, the smart device itself could broadcast its presence, functionality, and instructions for interaction in a variety of ways. The device could send potential users an electronic message or respond to an audible command. The device could register with a …

Automatic Execution Of Authentication Actions At High Trust Levels, Thomas Price, Justin Lewis

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Online authentication systems for payment, electronic commerce, personal communication, etc. are increasingly subject to attacks. If breached, such systems can permit fraudulent transactions. As a result, software applications (apps), e.g., e-commerce apps, banking apps, etc. deploy additional levels of identity authentication to verify user identity for sensitive transactions, e.g., money transfer from a new device, ordering goods to a new delivery address, etc. This disclosure proposes queueing actions that require additional levels of authentication such that such actions are executed at a later time once a high level of trust is obtained. High level of trust can be obtained in …

Computer Vision Ring, Nicholas Jonas, Barron Webster

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Visually-impaired people have difficulty reading handwritten or printed documents that are not written in Braille. Totally blind people cannot read handwritten or printed documents that are not in Braille. A large fraction of written language encountered in daily life or travel still does not appear in Braille, thereby denying visually impaired and completely blind people access to such information. The present disclosure describes techniques to scan one’s surroundings using a low-profile camera, to identify objects and/or written language using an object or character recognition system, and to convey scanned information aurally to a user. Machine learning and inference models are …

Determining Absolute Orientation Of A Phone By Imaging Celestial Bodies, Chia-Kai Liang, Yibo Chen

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The absolute orientation of a phone is of importance in a variety of applications, e.g., navigation, augmented reality, photography, etc. Phone sensors, e.g., gyroscope, etc. can determine relative changes in orientation, but absolute orientation is generally poorly known or unknown. Absolute orientation is not factory-set, and if it is set, requires periodic recalibration. This disclosure provides techniques to determine absolute orientation of a phone by imaging celestial bodies, e.g., sun, moon, etc. Once the absolute orientation is determined, phone sensors measure relative changes in orientation and thereby keep track of absolute orientation.

Reducing Battery Usage In Drones, Varun Soundararajan, Manas Mittal

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Drones have a number of applications and can be very useful in many situations. However, usage of drones is constrained by limited battery capacity. This requires solutions to either increase the battery capacity of drones or reduce battery usage by drones. This disclosure provides strategies to reduce battery usage by drones, enabling drones to fly longer before requiring a recharge. Reduction in battery usage also reduces recharge cycles. Drone flight is optimized by using air draft maps. Further, battery efficient mechanisms are used to implement transfer of drone payloads. These strategies decrease the periods of time when a drone is …

Hash Comparisons To Provide Warnings Of Phishing Attacks, Pedro Gonnet Anders

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This disclosure describes techniques to warn users when a password for a particular online domain is being submitted by a user device to a domain different than the one for which it was originally registered. The warning alerts the user of possible phishing attacks. Cryptographic hashes of user passwords along with corresponding domains are stored. When a user attempts to send data to a website, e.g., via form submission, hashes of the data are calculated and compared with the stored hashes of password. In the case of a match, a warning is presented to the user. The techniques can be …

Placing Marketing Orders To Optimize Transportation Rate Tiers, Jeffrey Cuartero

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Techniques described herein can be utilized by online and offline retailers, and other organizations that use third party carriers, e.g., for package delivery. It is determined whether placing marketing or promotional orders during a particular period is likely to result in cost savings in a subsequent period. The savings are due to achieving a minimum order volume in a current period that results in qualifying for a rate discount from the carrier in the subsequent period. To ensure that marketing orders are successfully completed, marketing orders are opportunistically placed for specific items and designated stores are stocked with those items. …

Processor Cache Snapshot And Restore, David Weekly

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A system is described that improves performance in processes that are resumed by providing a cache that stores information that can immediately be used by the process when the process resumes. A processor may store a snapshot of a cache for a process to memory when the process yields to another process. When performance of the process is later resumed on the processor, the processor may retrieve the cache for the process from the memory and then resume the process.

Automatic Translation Of User-Entered Text, Matthew Sharifi, Jakob Foerster

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This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to interact seamlessly with foreign language webpages. When a user loads a webpage in a foreign language and provides input in a language different from the webpage language, the user input is automatically translated. Based on user selection, the original user input or the translated user input, is sent to the website. The translation is performed in a manner suitable to the context and is not a literal translation of user-entered text. For example, translation is performed such that proper nouns are not translated, certain classes of entities are translated via known mappings, …

Smart Pen And Related Method For Detecting Ink Applied By A Smart Pen Onto A Writing Surface

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The present disclosure relates to a smart pen and related method for quickly and effectively differentiating between content created by writing or marking on a writing surface with the smart pen and other content contained on the writing surface (e.g., pre-existing written or printed content). For example, the smart pen may be provided with a specialized type of ink that is configured to reflect light when illuminated with a given light source, thereby allowing the ink to be easily identified or detected within images captured via a camera of the smart pen. As a result, when images of the writing …

Determination Of Device Pose Using Text Matching From Captured Images, Tilman Reinhardt, Jeremy Pack, Allen Hutchison, Daniel Filip, Brian Brown

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Both server-based and client-based systems can be used for precisely detecting orientation of a user device. Existing sets of geographically referenced imagery include identifiable text, and the same text may appear within multiple images within the set where the multiple images are taken from different viewpoints and camera angles. Multiple observations of the same physical text in the world are used to triangulate measurements and create a 3-dimensional (3D) location and direction for a specific text. The 3D location for the specific text is used to create a spatially indexed 3D text database, which can be located at a …