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Predictive Pre-Answering Based On Speech Roots, N/A

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The latency of response from a virtual assistant to a user query is an important performance parameter. However, often it is the perception of latency that drives the user’s experience and thereby, adoption/use of a virtual assistant. Skeleton screens can be used for pre-answering a query, e.g., working out a partial answer based on a partial query. This disclosure describes techniques to predict the collection of intents associated with a partial user query and automatically rendering an appropriate skeleton screen substantially earlier during the user interaction with a virtual assistant or other user interface.

Media Advance Calibration Image Processing Algorithm On A New Diagnostic Plot, Hp Inc

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In page wide array printers, the advance of the media through the print zone has a high impact on image

quality attributes such as margin registration, skew banding and horizontal banding, among others.

To compensate for mechanical tolerances that can affect the print quality, the media advance needs to

be calibrated in the printer. This calibration is based on characterizing media advance error in the form of

parameters to a predetermined model, followed by the correction of their deviations from the nominal

values.

In current products this calibration is done as part of the manufacturing process and requires specialized

instruments …

Ml Assisted Context Awareness Identification, Hp Inc

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The explosive growth of users of Smart Phone, Web Connected devices and Web has changed how content was absorbed and

presents tremendous opportunity for Data acquisition, Data Mining, Data Rendering, Data Classification and Visualization.

We being leader in the Printing and Personal System domain we have unique opportunity to direct this data to our Cloud Print

enabled printers and various Web Connected Devices for providing various solutions.

This paper aims at defining a machine learning based context awareness identification platform for data acquisition, extracting

context from unstructured data and helping various data driven solution e.g. enhancing user experience of digital …

Optimization Mask Strap (Corona), Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Minimum Thrust Function Targeted Energy Destruction By The Brake, Axel Unger

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Driverless Transport Vehicle With Voice Output For Loading Request, Axel Unger

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Driverless Transport Vehicle As Mobile Charging Station, Axel Unger

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Driverless Transport System With Drones For Surveillance, Axel Unger

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Control Element Light Module Integrated Panorama Glass, Axel Unger

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Containerizing Arbitrary Applications, Joseph Lewis Iii

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Containerizing is a procedure by which an application that runs locally on the computer is packaged into a container that can run on another machine, e.g., a server in the cloud. Packaging container images can consume substantial developer time and require a developer to manually iterate on packaging, validating, and debugging. This disclosure describes techniques for automatic containerization of arbitrary applications.

The Hexagonal Mesh Like Virtual Reality Viewer, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to construct a virtual reality viewing device that has a comparatively smaller form factor. The device’s viewing parts contain an array of small focusing lenses. through these parts, the viewer of this device could experience a hexagonal mesh-like field of view experience.

All Distance Optimally Capturing Camera Array, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to utilize all the pixels in capturing visual information at all distances using an array of cameras. The method uses a surface that has both transparent and reflective surfaces built onto it. When the light rays come into contact with this surface, parts of the light travel through the transparent parts and parts of light reflect off the reflective part. Two types of camera arrays capture the two types of light rays: the light rays that pass through and the light rays that reflect off. The configuration is arranged in a way that no two …

System To Enable Contract-Less/Agreement-Less Roaming Across Mobile Operators, Nitin Maheshwari, Praveen Joseph

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Mobile roaming is a service that allows mobile users to continue to use their mobile phones or other mobile devices to make and receive voice calls and text messages, browse the internet, and send and receive emails while visiting another geography where a home network connection does not exist. However, issues may arise for scenarios in which a visited network may not have a roaming agreement with a user's home network in a given country and/or an agreement may be cost prohibitive for the user to utilize. Presented herein are techniques to facilitate agreement-free or contract-less roaming across network operators …

Enhancing The Delivery Of Audio Tuned To The Specific User Across The Various Audio Devices They Use, Accounting For Device Performance Differences., Anonymous

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An audio assessment of the user is done on a first device, which creates that users hearing profile. The hearing profile can be stored on the first device or in the cloud. The first device may exchange the hearing profile directly with one of more other devices, they may be the same make/model as the first device, but they may not be, or may store the hearing profile in the cloud, for example, associated with a user account. Any other audio devices that support hearing profiles, obtain the hearing profile and perform adjustments to their RX or TX audio quality …

Method For Perspective Adjustment And De-Warping Between A Wide And Telephoto Lens, Anonymous

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A single dot-matrix grid can be imaged from wide and telephoto lenses simultaneously. This grid is used as a calibration device during manufacturing. A software algorithm and implementation finds the true locations of each dot in space from the distorted image. Once the error between the true dot location and the imaged dot location is known, this error vector can be used to correct each image. Further, these dot locations in the uncorrected images can be used in a morphing algorithm to morph smoothly from one lens to another

Method For Perspective Adjustment And De-Warping Between A Wide And Telephoto Lens, Anonymous

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A single dot-matrix grid can be imaged from wide and telephoto lenses simultaneously. This grid is used as a calibration device during manufacturing. A software algorithm and implementation finds the true locations of each dot in space from the distorted image. Once the error between the true dot location and the imaged dot location is known, this error vector can be used to correct each image. Further, these dot locations in the uncorrected images can be used in a morphing algorithm to morph smoothly from one lens to another.

Contextually-Dynamic Settings With Granular Control, Xin Li, Nina Joshi

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A vehicle (e.g., automobile, motorcycle, a bus, a recreational vehicle (RV), a semi-trailer truck, a tractor or other type of farm equipment, a train, a plane, a helicopter, etc.) may include a so-called “head unit” that provides a user interface (UI) that dynamically adapts to changes in vehicle state (e.g., network connectivity states, sign-in/out states, etc.) by indicating whether individual settings that are tied to the vehicle state are enabled or disabled. In the context of vehicles, such vehicle state may change throughout a single trip, as network connectivity may change along a given trip, operators of the vehicle may …

Using Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence To Minimize Shipping Costs Of Consumables In A Subscription Or Mps System, Hp Inc

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A user of a consumable product needs to know when the consumable will reach end of life (EOL).

This enables the user to purchase a replacement consumable to both avoid wasting any remaining

material of the product by replacing it too early as well as being able to have a replacement on hand

and avoid the inability to use the product.

Roll-Formed Profile For Door Beams, Martin Mueller-Bechtel, Axel Foerderreuther, Chengappa Poonacha

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Disclosed is a roll-formed closed section manufactured from a high strength aluminum alloy, such as, but not limited to, s701 T6, s650 T6, or other cold formable 7xxx alloys, depending on load requirements. The roll forming may occur in a soft state (F or T4) at room temperature. If higher formability is required, induction heating may be combined with roll forming. As shown in Fig. 1 below, the section is gradually formed to a closed shape resembling the Greek small letter Pi (p). Beams from this profile are well suited as door beams or Side Impact Beams (SIB), but may …

Automatic Print Removal Using Print Head, Jaime Van Kessel, Kostas Karmas, Sam Kent

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This publication describes the printing of an extra “helper” structure below and around a print to be removed from the build plate of an FFF printer. The print head can be used to exert a force onto the helper structure so as to loosen the print from the build plate. Once the print is loosened from the plate, it can be pushed to the side and be removed from the build plate. It may then be received by a e.g. a bucket or box placed in front of the FFF printer. The build plate will then be complete empty, and …

User Configurable Laptop Docking Station, Kevin Ngo, Scott Collyer

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This disclosure describes a configurable docking station that enables a user to select from different modes of operation, e.g., 4-lane and 2-lane DisplayPort modes. Switching among the various modes of the docking station can be accomplished via a user press and hold of a power button. The duration of the power button press is utilized to dynamically configure the docking station. The docking station can be powered on and off by a user press duration that falls within a predetermined range, while power button presses with a duration in other ranges are utilized to place the docking station into a …

Scanning And Ranking A Stream Of Visual Objects, Matthew Sharifi, Abhanshu Sharma

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When examining a product in the store, users can use augmented reality (AR) devices to research the product. However, unlike in online shopping, making product comparisons while shopping in the store is time-consuming, burdensome, and error prone. This disclosure describes the use of object recognition techniques to enable AR-based visual searches and product comparisons. With user permission, products in the user’s field of view are detected and identified, and a dynamic buffer of product information is maintained. The buffer serves to transform the searches for individual products within a visual search session into a ranked list that can be sorted …

Improved Security And Reliability In The Dns Provider Discovery Mechanism Of Domain Connect Protocol, Navneet Goel, Aditya Gopalakrishnan

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Domain Connect is a publicly available standard that enables DNS Providers to provide a mechanism for Service Providers to place DNS records on the domain, thus freeing the customer from having to manually set the records. There however exist some security and reliability challenges arising from the current Domain Connect specifications which Service Providers might want to protect themselves from. Specifically the _domainconnect TXT record, in theory, can be compromised to point to a server controlled by a bad actor; the protocol does not provide a facility to shut down DNS Providers known to have downtime or other issues; and …

Detecting A Sequence Of Related Queries To Provide A Combined Set Of Structured Answers, Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune

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When a sequence of queries from a user is formed of queries that are related to each other and generate the same type of direct structured answers, current search engines will serve them independently. As a result, users cannot conveniently view and directly compare answers from the search engine across the multiple queries because these answers are provided within respective answer boxes on the search result page corresponding to each query. This disclosure describes techniques, implemented with user permission, that detect when a user enters a sequence of queries that yield the same type(s) of answers that can be compared …

Important Message Guardian-A Smart Dock To Help You Guard The Important Message, Hp Inc

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Modern standby (MSC) is a good and popular mechanism in computer industry. We use it to

replace the S3 as the default shipping configuration. However, when user get into MSC by

close lid, we always miss important or critical message of your computer since the computer

is in deep low power mode and cannot do things that consumer more computing power. For

example, turn on display to display something, nerveless, your lid is closed. Dock is a good

product whatever in home or office to provide persistent power and extent communication

source for computer. That is the reason why it …

View Combining Virtual Reality Headset, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to enable a view combining viewing experience in a virtual environment. A virtual reality headset is used in this method. The headset consists of a large display for a greater peripheral region viewing experience and two small displays for central vision. The method can be used for two different virtual experience scenarios. One scenario is the virtual viewing experience of a comparatively higher resolution smaller central field of view and a normal resolution surrounding peripheral field of view. The other scenario is the virtual viewing experience of a normal resolution normal-sized central field of view …

Immediate Ca (Customer Advisory) Notification Mechanism, Hp Inc

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EA/CA document on web to inform end user what’s critical issue they may encounter and how

to work‐around or avoid it. However, the read rate by end user is quite low and still cause lots of

service calls, worst is to return unit to raise HP repair cost.

 We proposed In‐Time CA method to check customer’s unit ID and show them latest security

hole message/critical issue status and where to get solution. Through Capsule interface to

trigger Critical WU to immediately inform customer urgent info they best to know while their

system is connected to the network.

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Smart Fan Control Based On Prediction Average Loading, Hp Inc

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The fan speed table is fixed and following the skin temperature or CPU temperature.

But some applications just have heavy loading at beginning and average loading is light.

The fan spins up to maximum speed at this moment and then the fan speed is slow

down later when the application is not busy. The user experience is bad because the

fan noise. We provide a Smart Fan Control Based on Prediction Average Loading

(SFCBPAL). It can predict the average loading to control the fan speed. The fan

behavior is different for different prediction average loading. It can provide better

performance …

Less Power Consumption To Support Itile Ring In Ms Mode, Hp Inc

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There has exist different TILE usage in marketing already especially for individual TILE

module, for NB the onboard TILE is more useful due to individual TILE is easy to remove.

However, individual TILE using its own battery and easy to replace but NB rely on system

power, even we build in an individual coin battery for onboard TILE it still hard to replace

that battery for user, therefore the system power still the best option for onboard TILE

support.

To support TILE in each power state is required but the challenge is how we can save the

system power especially …

Smart S4 If Ms State Unstable, Hp Inc

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Modern standby replace legacy S3 to provide better user experience of system resume

time, however it will consume more system power than legacy S3, to keep good user

experience and prevent system drain the power too fast so MSFT has defined the battery

life criteria for the MS support, normally the requirement is to have 6 days standby

capability.