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Detection Of License Plates In Mobile Device Dashcam, Kirk Johnson
Detection Of License Plates In Mobile Device Dashcam, Kirk Johnson
Defensive Publications Series
Systems and methods for detection of license plates using mobile dashcams are disclosed. The system includes a mobile device installed with a dashcam app connected to a server and a law enforcement agency through a mobile network. The dashcam app maintains an on-device database of vehicle data. The vehicle data is obtained from a server after pre-computation of the detection parameters from the issued Amber Alerts on the server-side. This enables the detection task to be more computationally feasible on the mobile device. The method includes detecting a vehicle that matches the description provided in Amber Alerts. The user is …
Efficient Application Switching With A Single Gesture, Daniel Park, Roger Graves, Benjamin Mccanny
Efficient Application Switching With A Single Gesture, Daniel Park, Roger Graves, Benjamin Mccanny
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This disclosure describes techniques that enable switching between applications with a single gesture. The techniques can be implemented in any device that supports gestures, e.g., a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, etc. A user can switch between applications by performing a swipe gesture from an icon, e.g., a task switcher icon, or other location. In a touchscreen implementation, as the user’s finger moves, each available application window is briefly in focus. To switch to a target application, the user releases her finger. In this manner, a single continuous operation (swipe and release gesture) enables the user to switch between applications quickly …
Identifying Solar Arrays From Overhead Imagery, Carl Elkin
Identifying Solar Arrays From Overhead Imagery, Carl Elkin
Defensive Publications Series
Residential solar arrays are an increasingly significant source of electricity. When integrated with the electric grid, the weather-dependent production characteristics of solar arrays can pose challenges. For example, if solar array production drops, e.g., due to a sudden change in weather, idle power generation plants need to be turned on, at substantial additional expense. Conversely, if solar production soars, the spot price of electricity may drop, leading to losses. For purposes of grid planning, it is valuable to know the size, orientation and distribution of solar arrays in a given region. Additionally, the availability of a nationwide map of solar-powered …
Low-Cost Indoor Micro-Location, Brian Cornell
Low-Cost Indoor Micro-Location, Brian Cornell
Defensive Publications Series
Devices and methods are disclosed that can determine the location of an object in 3d space based on low-cost, small, battery powered devices that can be used in an indoor setting. The “Dots” operate using a combination of low power wireless communication and ultrasonic sound. The wireless communication may be typically BLE, Thread or WiFi. Dots also are provided basic processing ability and an ultrasonic microphone capable of sensing. Dots are passive and are controlled by the device whose location is being identified, referred to as the Control Point (CP). Multiple Dots are placed within an indoor space and distance …
Auction Floor Optimization, Don Greenberg
Auction Floor Optimization, Don Greenberg
Defensive Publications Series
A reserve price optimization (RPO) system estimates bids of individual bidders for an auction based on bidding information specific to the individual bidder. Auction data and bidder specific information are input to a model (e.g., neural network) that determines an estimated bid. Each of the estimate bids for each of the individual bidders of an auction are used as inputs in determination of an auction floor estimate optimization for a current auction. The auction floor estimate can be discounted by a safety bias to decreases likelihood of the auction floor estimate surpassing an actual top bid of the bidders.
Embedding Radars In Robots For Safety And Obstacle Detection, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ali Javan Javidan, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Erik M. Olson, Ivan Poupyrev
Embedding Radars In Robots For Safety And Obstacle Detection, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ali Javan Javidan, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Erik M. Olson, Ivan Poupyrev
Defensive Publications Series
A safety system is designed to use small, low-cost radars embedded in joints and end effectors of a robot to monitor an environment for potential safety hazards. In this way, the radars directly detect obstacles with respect to the moving parts of the robot. A safety controller analyzes the obstacle data provided by the radars and determines an appropriate operating state of the robot based on predefined safety requirements.
Embedding Radars In Robots To Accurately Measure Motion, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Ivan Poupyrev, Erik M. Olson, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ali Javan Javidan
Embedding Radars In Robots To Accurately Measure Motion, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Ivan Poupyrev, Erik M. Olson, Jaime Lien, Patrick M. Amihood, Ali Javan Javidan
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A motion correction system is designed to use small, low-cost radars embedded in joints and end effectors of a robot to measure motion of the robot. In this way, the radars directly measure the robot’s motion and relative position and velocity with respect to a target. A motion correction controller analyzes the motion data provided by the radars and determines an amount of motion correction required to accurately position the robot.
Arrive Dry And Safe - A Better Way To Travel, Gaston Serpenti, Jort Schutte, Cleo Mitchell, Ilina Scott, Jeremy Brook, Sam Mayo
Arrive Dry And Safe - A Better Way To Travel, Gaston Serpenti, Jort Schutte, Cleo Mitchell, Ilina Scott, Jeremy Brook, Sam Mayo
Defensive Publications Series
Disclosed herein are a system and method providing a better way to travel to one’s destination. The system includes an app that provides push notifications to users regarding weather changes and also provides prior forecast intimation if weather conditions are likely to affect the schedule based on predicted commutes of the user. The app provides integration of weather information with activity, location, speed, maps data and calendar functions. The app suggests solutions which would guide the user to pre-plan, postpone, re-route or reschedule the earlier plan in order to avoid any disruption. Depending on the user’s selection, the app will …
A Method Providing Live Skippable Advertisements, David Hastings
A Method Providing Live Skippable Advertisements, David Hastings
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed that provide live skippable video advertisements during ad breaks. The system includes a server that allows selection of ads to display from a video pod or carousel. The method may run on the advertisement server to display advertisements from the carousel during an advertisement break, while allowing the viewer the option to skip an advertisement. The algorithm selects advertisements to fit the available time slot. When the user decides to skip an ad, the system selects another advertisement that would fit the time available. After the current ad runs out, the system continues displaying …
Api Test Framework Using Meta-Descriptor, Murugesan Arumugam, Hiro Rameshlal Lalwani, Jayasankar Nallasamy
Api Test Framework Using Meta-Descriptor, Murugesan Arumugam, Hiro Rameshlal Lalwani, Jayasankar Nallasamy
Defensive Publications Series
Current trend demands the IT infrastructure to move towards cloud centric service adapting open standards like open source software, open data-center hardware, open networking standards etc. There has been a steady increase in Open API software but it lacks a common validation frameworks to meet the growing demand. So there arises the need for a generic API validation framework that can apparently help developers to validate public as well as private APIs. Testing a software sub-system, which houses a large number of such APIs each of which accepts a number of parameters always ends up as a highly monotonous work. …
2u Chassis Accepts Pcie Or Pxie Cards, Kevin Conn, Harvey Edward White Jr., Michael Stearns, Sunil Gopalkrishna
2u Chassis Accepts Pcie Or Pxie Cards, Kevin Conn, Harvey Edward White Jr., Michael Stearns, Sunil Gopalkrishna
Defensive Publications Series
PCIe and PXIe are both open-standards for expansion and I/O cards, both enabling the end user of the system to configure the desired I/O to suit their needs. The problem is that the two cards are not space-compatible, requiring systems manufacturers to create two separate product to address both markets. This article discloses a modular design that can accept either a PCIe or PXI/PCIe card carrier, thus allowing the main chassis and compute solution to be common for both versions. This example is a compact, 2U tall, industrial compute platform.
1u Chassis Accepts Pcie Or Pxie Cards, Kevin Conn, Harvey Edward White Jr., Victoria Jeanine Doehring-Patel, Prashant A. Solanki
1u Chassis Accepts Pcie Or Pxie Cards, Kevin Conn, Harvey Edward White Jr., Victoria Jeanine Doehring-Patel, Prashant A. Solanki
Defensive Publications Series
PCIe and PXIe are both open-standards for expansion and I/O cards, both enabling the end user of the system to configure the desired I/O to suit their needs. The problem is that the two cards are not space-compatible, requiring systems manufacturers to create two separate product to address both markets. This article discloses a means that allows for a flexible architecture that can accept either a PCIe bay or a PXIe bay, thus enabling both types of I/O, PCIe and PXIe, to be supported in a common-design, and in this example, a system that can be mounted in a standard …
Using A Graph Database To Identify Nfv Domain Monitors During Run-Time, Praneeth Nerimetla
Using A Graph Database To Identify Nfv Domain Monitors During Run-Time, Praneeth Nerimetla
Defensive Publications Series
This disclosure relates to the field of Infrastructure in virtualized performance monitoring of Virtual Network Functions’ standard resources built on ETSI Guidelines. In real-time, the monitoring requirements are identified using a graph database with a faster, more efficient and monitoring identification made easier using graph data-modelling techniques.
Optical Blade Management, John Norton, Kevin Leigh
Optical Blade Management, John Norton, Kevin Leigh
Defensive Publications Series
As optical connectivity is deployed internal to blade servers and new designs begin to utilize cables to deploy high speed signals, such as Open19, traditional midplanes are no longer required to support high speed data signals. In these cases, the midplane assembly are only needed to provide management signals and power to the blade servers while leaving the expensive high speed copper infrastructure unneeded and unused. The following figures and description describe a two methods by which the management signals of the blade system are distributed throughout the blade servers optically, orthogonal to the blade orientation, separating them from the …
Anonymous Mobile Device Connections, Titus E. Davis
Anonymous Mobile Device Connections, Titus E. Davis
Defensive Publications Series
Despite the vast use of social media on mobile devices there is not a good way to make connections without the use of identifying information. The idea is to use sound, light, or images to make connections between individuals or groups without the need to exchange phone numbers, email address, links, tags or any identifying information. This technology can be used even if the individuals or groups are not in direct contact with each other.
A System And Method For User Customized 3d Model Placement, Jorge Martin Bilello Restifo
A System And Method For User Customized 3d Model Placement, Jorge Martin Bilello Restifo
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed that enable user-customized 3D ad model placement in augmented reality videos. The first part of the algorithm involves adding markers into the video created by the video providers. The system for broadcasting the video includes an algorithm to predict the products the user is likely to purchase, thus customizing advertisement placement. A 3D model is generated for the product identified by the prediction algorithm. The system combines the product generated via the prediction program with the markers on the video to generate the placement. Thus a video is displayed on the user’s device with …
Voltage Doubler Rectifier With Switch For High And Low Ac Inputs, Honggang Sheng, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
Voltage Doubler Rectifier With Switch For High And Low Ac Inputs, Honggang Sheng, Liang Jia, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
Defensive Publications Series
An alternating current (AC) rectifier can double the voltage for low-voltage AC sources, such as 110 volt AC sources, and maintain the voltage for high-voltage AC sources, such as 220 volt AC sources. The rectifier can therefore provide a consistent high direct current (DC) voltage, such as 220 volts, regardless of whether the rectifier is plugged into a source such as a wall outlet in the United States, where wall outlets typically provide 110 volts AC, or a wall outlet in Europe, where wall outlets typically provide 220 volts AC. The rectifier can be included in an integrated circuit of …
Clustering And Sorting Responses To Short Answers In Electronic Quiz, Tynia Yang
Clustering And Sorting Responses To Short Answers In Electronic Quiz, Tynia Yang
Defensive Publications Series
A teacher can generate an electronic quiz with questions and model answers. Students will type or otherwise enter free-form responses to the questions. A computing system will cluster similar responses together, and sort the responses based on similarity to the model answer. The computing system will present the sorted responses to the teacher, and the teacher will enter scores for the responses. When subsequent teachers generate electronic quizzes with the same questions, the computing system can use scores entered by previous teachers to rank the responses provided by subsequent students.
Bandwidth Efficient Advertising With P2p Asset Retrieval Using Bluetooth, Thomas Price, Tuna Toksoz
Bandwidth Efficient Advertising With P2p Asset Retrieval Using Bluetooth, Thomas Price, Tuna Toksoz
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed for sharing advertisement content by distributed delivery via peer-to-peer connections. The system has multiple devices that are interconnected via a localized communications protocol such as NFC, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The system uses an algorithm to identify the top requested advertisements from the ad server’s database and then sends it to a subset of devices that are geographically close to each other. A few among the users are selected as seed users who then receive the ad content directly over the Internet from the server. The seed users then broadcast the received ad content via …
Digital Broadcasting White Cane, Robert Snedegar, Jeffrey Oldham
Digital Broadcasting White Cane, Robert Snedegar, Jeffrey Oldham
Defensive Publications Series
Systems and methods for digital broadcasting of a white cane and notifying its presence to a user nearby are disclosed. The system includes a white cane fitted with a rechargeable wireless transmitter unit that interacts wirelessly with digital devices enabled to receive alerts. The wireless transmitter may use a low-energy transmission protocol such as Bluetooth that supports proximity sensing. The method includes determining the relative proximity of the person between the cane and the device and displaying an alert to the user that a visually impaired person is approaching. The user of the digital device thus may give way and …
Synchronized Music Ads, Shreenath Regunathan, Jaakko Tiistola
Synchronized Music Ads, Shreenath Regunathan, Jaakko Tiistola
Defensive Publications Series
A method for transitioning from one audio music track to another is disclosed. The method uses characteristics of the audio such as beat, volume, or tone of a first audio and a second and transitions between the two audio streams by selecting an appropriate ad to play between them. The selected ad is synced by matching its beginning to the characteristics of the first audio. The audio stream transitions from the first audio to the ad, and near its end the ad is again synced with those of the second audio. The stream transitions from the ad to the second …
Side-Cooling Of Pluggable Optical Transceiver Modules, Kevin Leigh, Sunil Ganta, John Norton
Side-Cooling Of Pluggable Optical Transceiver Modules, Kevin Leigh, Sunil Ganta, John Norton
Defensive Publications Series
Existing and new industry standard MSA (multi-sourced agreement) optical transceiver modules (e.g., QSFP, OSFP) are plugged into cages with heat sinks attached that are mounted in servers and switches generally designed for front to back cooling. The following descriptions and images describe side cooling methods to enable an airflow path through new MSA module cages and shells, while utilizing the same module paddle cards containing opto-electronics.
Easy Connect Vertical Drive Cage, Eason Chen, Peter Liao, Geoffrey Sun, Mealy Cheng, Phoebus Lin
Easy Connect Vertical Drive Cage, Eason Chen, Peter Liao, Geoffrey Sun, Mealy Cheng, Phoebus Lin
Defensive Publications Series
An Easy Connect Vertical Drive Cage allows storage drives and cages to interlock together for better mechanical support.
Post-Processing Of Machine Classifier Output For Object Classification, Eric Nichols, Sourish Chaudhuri
Post-Processing Of Machine Classifier Output For Object Classification, Eric Nichols, Sourish Chaudhuri
Defensive Publications Series
Machine classifiers are typically trained using labeled data sets. If the training data set has categories of objects that naturally co-occur, the machine classifier may have difficulty in distinguishing those categories. For example, audio streams often contain instances of sounds that occur simultaneously; e.g., speech and laughter. In this example, the different sounds are the objects that are to be classified. A machine classifier trained with such audio streams generates false positives; e.g., conflates speech with laughter, if the training data set does not label speech separately from laughter. The difficulty of obtaining well-labeled training sets compounds the problem of …
Fan Control With Reduced Control Signals, Geoffrey Sun, Peter Liao, Mealy Cheng, Chuan-Yu Lin
Fan Control With Reduced Control Signals, Geoffrey Sun, Peter Liao, Mealy Cheng, Chuan-Yu Lin
Defensive Publications Series
Fan Control with Reduced Control Signals can be used as a cost effective method to reduce the number of noisy control signals and allow a design to support limitless system fans.
System And Method Of Sharing Media Content With A Nearby Device, Bernadette Carter
System And Method Of Sharing Media Content With A Nearby Device, Bernadette Carter
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed that enable sharing media content such as an e-book or a video with a nearby device. The user may buy media content such as an e-book, online and access the content during a journey, for example. The user attempts to share the content with another recipient device, as it may be difficult to view the media content with another on the user’s device. The system then filters possible recipient devices based on a number of criteria such as distance, availability of a compatible app, app settings, size of the user device etc. and displays …
Gesture Typing-Enabled Physical Keyboard, Matthew Susskind
Gesture Typing-Enabled Physical Keyboard, Matthew Susskind
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method is disclosed that enables gesture typing on a keyboard. The system includes sensors suitably integrated into the keyboard. The sensor resolution is chosen in a way that any part of the key may be touched, allowing the users finger to glide over the keys. Software included in the system analyzes the pattern of keys hit over time. The software suggests the most likely words, and close alternative word hypotheses may also be presented on screen. The physical keys present enable standard typing and for typing non-dictionary words or character strings such as passwords, specific numbers and …
Smart Button Actions On Mobile Devices, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Victor Carbune
Smart Button Actions On Mobile Devices, Thomas Deselaers, Daniel Keysers, Victor Carbune
Defensive Publications Series
A system and method are disclosed that trigger a smart response to a button action when two or more running applications have applicable actions on a mobile device. The system includes a machine learning algorithm (MLA) built into the operating system that analyzes and learns from user actions. When the system detects a hardware button press, it retrieves possible actions/events that may be triggered for the current app and other running apps and processes. The actions are evaluated by computing a combination of scores involving machine-learned, rule-based scores provided by the apps and real-time signals such as location, time, user …
Word Id – Intuitive Representations Of Object Identifiers, Gearoid Hynes, Gary Moloney, Chris Coughlan, Patrick Buckley, Gearoid Paul Donnelan
Word Id – Intuitive Representations Of Object Identifiers, Gearoid Hynes, Gary Moloney, Chris Coughlan, Patrick Buckley, Gearoid Paul Donnelan
Defensive Publications Series
This disclosure describes a system and a method for mapping the numeric/alphanumeric identifiers of objects to words/phrases/sentences for the purpose of increasing memorability and/or human interactions.
An Efficient Method To Avoid Path Lookup In File Access Auditing In Io Path To Improve File System Io Performance, Arun Vishnu P K, Ramesh Kannan K, Rajkumar Kannan
An Efficient Method To Avoid Path Lookup In File Access Auditing In Io Path To Improve File System Io Performance, Arun Vishnu P K, Ramesh Kannan K, Rajkumar Kannan
Defensive Publications Series
One of the biggest challenges in metadata management schemes that sit outside the filesystem layer is their ability to index meaningful path information of files that are being referenced in an external system like a database or in a metadata journal file. Path to a file is a critical requirement that allows both meaningful interpretation of the locality of the file and its metadata and also secondly allows for more efficient user mode services that can transform the file or its metadata. Additionally path information is very essential in compliance systems where audit logs need to tell what happened to …