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Unoccluded Gestures Input Using A Secondary Touch Screen, D Shin, Anupam Pathak

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This publication describes systems and techniques for a computing device that includes multiple touch screens that enables a user to cause the computing device to update the graphical user interface (GUI) being outputted by a first touch screen of the computing device by providing gesture input at a second touch screen of the computing device. For example, a mobile computing device, such as a foldable smartphone, may include two touch screens that can be folded up to 360 degrees so that the two touch screens face away from each other in a back-to-back position. When such a mobile computing device …

Deposition Of Black Material On Metal Traces Surrounding Display Screen Blind-Holes To Increase Camera Performance And Improve Aesthetic Appearance, Sangmoo Choi

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This publication describes techniques and apparatuses for increasing camera performance and improving the aesthetic appearance of electronic device display screens with front facing cameras that utilize display screen blind-holes. The techniques include depositing a black material on metal signal traces (metal traces) located in an inactive area of the display screen. The black material is positioned to increase the viewable area of the front-facing camera, reduce the size of the inactive area (e.g., a display screen blind spot), hide reflective metal traces present on a layer of the display panel, and reduce the occurrence of the lightguide effect on image …

Signaling And Displaying Emotion And Other Intent With Closed Captioning, Defensive Publication

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This invention uses newly defined mechanisms, fields and character glyphs that enable closed captioning to convey emotional and other intent.

What Did That Emoji Mean?, Defensive Publication

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A user interface feature that provides a literal description of an icon as well as its meaning upon mouse-over

Multimodal Content Editing, Matt Sharifi

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This publication describes systems and techniques for multimodal content editing that enables a user to edit or extend content in a given modality using a variety of different input modes while matching the underlying format of the content and while preserving the original input. When the user uses an input mode different from the underlying format of a piece of content to provide input at a computing device to edit or extend the piece of content, the computing device may convert the input provided by the user from the input mode to the underlying format and may edit the piece …

Using Closed Captioning To Create Sign Language With Emotional Nuance, Defensive Publication

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Using Closed Captioning to create Sign Language with emotional nuance

Using Newly Defined Mechanisms And Fields That Describe The Location Of The Head, Mouth Or Body Of The Person Talking In A Video In Order To Highlight The Region Of Interest For A Lip Reader, Defensive Publication

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This invention addresses lip reading used to help Voice Assistant Speech Recognition or use in Silent Mode by using neural network/AI technology and voice recognition in conjunction with a voice assistant

Automatic Pip For Reading Lips And Highlight, Defensive Publication

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Using newly defined mechanisms and fields that describe the location of the head, mouth or body of the person talking in a video in order to highlight the region of interest for a lip reader

Automatic Pip For Reading Lips And Highlight Using Image Recognition, Defensive Publication

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This invention describes a method of automatically reading lips of a person featured in a video

Automatic Signing Pip And Highlight Using Image Recognition, Defensive Publication

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Automatic Signing PiP and Highlight using IMAGE RECOGNITION

Signaling For Signing For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing, Defensive Publication

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The invention defines mechanisms and fields that describe the sign-language carried or embedded in a video stream. The invention related to describing a video asset as having the "singing language" of "American Sign Language" or "British Sign Language", etc.. Generally, only audio or captions have a language - not video. Discoverable attributes will allow the user interface to announce availability and configurability of the service to the viewer.

Real Time Exercise Feedback Based On Radar And Video Using Artificial Intelligence, Daniel Kaufman

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Radar and/or video data is used in combination with a machine learning model to detect an exercise pose or position that a user is attempting to achieve. Feedback is provided in visual or audio form indicating how the user should correct his or her position. When the user properly achieves a position, positive feedback is provided, such as a pleasing auditory sound or a visual indication that the user’s body is in the proper position.

Audio Guidance To Enable Vision-Impaired Individuals To Move Independently, Ryan Burke, Mikhail Sirotenko, Tomer Meron, John Watkinson, Matt Hall, Dror Ayalon, Xuan Yang

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At present, when an individual who is blind or has low-vision runs or walks for exercise, they might use a treadmill, rely on a guide dog, or use a tethered human guide. Independent and safe exercise, whether walking or running, is one way to increase personal agency and improve the quality of life for vision-impaired persons. This disclosure describes techniques that use on-device machine learning to enable a vision-impaired individual to independently walk or run, e.g., for exercise. A tape or guideline is painted along the running path. A mobile device camera detects the guideline. An app on the phone …

Camera-Driven Beamforming For Better Audio Capture, Chris Igo

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Background noise picked up by microphones can be mitigated using audio beamforming. However, if a user loses alignment with the beam, the user’s speech can be severely attenuated or lost in the noise. This disclosure utilizes a camera, with user permission, to obtain coordinate information for a user that is providing audio input, e.g., in a voice/video call, during an audio recording, etc. The information is utilized to dynamically adjust the direction of the beam of an audio beamformer such that a user’s speech, e.g., as received by the beamformer is consistent regardless of the current position or movement of …

Flexible Display Convertible Notebook Design, Hp Inc

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X360 convertible notebook become pop in the marketing, user can experience tablet and

clamshell mode in one notebook. But most of the users did not use touch functional in

clamshell mode.

Current tablet mode design need stack up touch panel with Keyboard/chassis, so the Z

height/thickness cannot meet user`s expectation.

The Random Set Expander, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to expand a given set of numerical values to yield a larger set of numerical values. A web browser and a search engine are used as the main utility in this method. Users of the search engine type search query to the web browser and click the search button to execute the search. The search engine has given each browser in each user’s device a particular ID. These IDs are recoded when the users click the search buttons in their web browsers. The recorded IDs are stored in a database according to the order of …

Hybrid Thermal Interface Material Configuration, Mark Gustlin, Don Nguyen

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Presented herein is a hybrid Thermal Interface Material (TIM) construction that combines two different types of TIM material to always maintain contact in the center of the package, but also allow contact over the rest of the package when warped due to high temperatures when cooling is most critical.

Method Of Usb Key Reading To Soft Lock Monitor And Peripherals When Not In Use, Hp Inc

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Today monitors in a shared space such as an e‐café can be easily hijacked when a user does something as simple as

getting up to go to the bathroom. There is little that a user could do today to protect their gaming station since they are

using an unowned computing system. However, their account logins can be vulnerable when not in use. Our method

would allow the user to lock the display and all peripheral devices connected to the display by using a USB key that can

be read by the display’s USB hub.

Transportation Mode, Hp Inc

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Per research, workers commute an average over 38 minutes each way between home and work—a trip that

can feel like a dreadful chore before the workday even begins. In fact, long commutes lower job satisfaction

and increase employee turnover.

By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset, employees are giving themselves a

chance to make an easier mental shift from their home role to their work role, and ultimately, this makes

people feel happier about their jobs.

This invention is to make your commute manageable with more efficient to turn on/off the notebook

features …

Helping Quiet And Remote Participants Contribute More Effectively To Teleconferences, Chris Pearce, Lasonia Packenham, Sampada Khandekar, Tracy Caivano, Estefania Fernandez Alvarez

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Quiet and remote participants often have trouble contributing on conference calls when there is a dominant speaker. Meetings can be more effective when they include the perspectives of all attendees. Presented herein are techniques to combine visual analysis with monitoring of unmute/mute activities in order to notify meeting participants when a quiet or remote meeting participant wants to speak in a conference that is dominated by an active speaker.

Enhanced Video And Web Conferencing Security For Dual Account Endpoints, Kevin Collins, Steve Connolly, Denis Mchugh, Alan Mccann

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Dual account video and web conferencing endpoints have both a personal user account and a shared room account that are registered on the same device. When such an endpoint joins a meeting (e.g., after completing a pairing process) it raises a number of security, etc. challenges. To address these types of challenges, various solutions are presented herein through several techniques. In particular, the techniques may include support for devices utilizing proximity in a reverse fashion (i.e., personal mode endpoints may use ultrasound pairing to detect that the personal user is in proximity to a device and allow them to perform …

Avoiding Security Attacks In Proximity Reporting And Contact Tracing Using Ble Analytics In An Internet-Of-Things Framework, Akram Sheriff, Shankar Ramanathan, Hazim Dahir, Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Darryl Sladden

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In connection with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing mobile applications (e.g., that leverage Wi-Fi and Bluetooth™ Low Energy (BLE)) are being deployed. Many of those applications are susceptible to different security attacks. To address those types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that provide a multi-tiered mechanism for an optimized genuine client neighbor filtering technique that, among other things, may detect, score, and filter fake BLE advertisement attacks to improve the efficacy of the overall contact tracing application ecosystem and reduce airtime utilization from fake advertisements in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency bands. For example, a man-in-the-middle …

Skip Buffers For Optimized 3d Rendering, Eric Cosky

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Complex models in 3D graphics (such as architecture or game characters) are often composed of a single, large mesh of triangles that is processed by the graphics module as a single object. When objects are not fully visible, they are often split into multiple components to reduce the work required to render them. Breaking down the model and working with the components (instead of the whole) can, in some situations, reduce performance.

This disclosure describes techniques for optimizing rendering scenarios where only part of a model is visible. A skip buffer (with associated logic) includes hierarchical data that optimizes rendering …

Accurately Aligning Simples And Duplex Positions, By Adding Backlight To A Measurement Device, Hp Inc

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A method for accurately measuring, and correcting, the distance between two printed elements, either

one printed on other side of a sheet, by using radiation projected onto the sheet, from opposite side of

the measuring device.

Network Malfunction Self-Healing, Hp Inc

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Internet access becomes a common requirement on the PC / Notebook in the past years and

user can get it through the connectivity devices (e.g. Ethernet, WiFi or WWAN…etc.) However,

the user might meet the “yellow mark” issue on the connectivity devices and they might not know

how to fix those issues. This disclosure is trying to fix those problems with a background service /

daemon on behalf of user to provide the better network user experience.

Active Differential Privacy Budget Management, N/A

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A data processing system may facilitate the methodical release of information in a differentially private manner by tracking access characteristics associated with datasets. The data processing system may maintain a privacy budget allocation for entities and/or users and may calculate privacy budget expenditures based on queries submitted by the entities and/or users. The data processing system may process entity and/or user queries for information from one or more datasets and may track privacy budget expenditures in relation to privacy budget allocations.

Automatic Correction Of Timestamps On Telemetry Streaming Endpoints, Sari Fernandez Barbosa, Yanid Alejandra Perez Rodriguez, Jie Zhan, Sindhura Ramegowda

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Any telemetry data from a network that indicates an incorrect date and time is not usable for troubleshooting potential network issues. Presented herein are different scenarios for detecting incorrect timestamps and leveraging Internet Protocol (IP) geolocation and swarming techniques to correlate with other devices sending telemetry information in order to autocorrect timestamps. When it is possible to autocorrect timestamps, discrepancies can be resolved for both closed-loop (e.g., bidirectional) communication scenarios and open-loop (e.g., one-way or edge collector) communication scenarios.

Tens Unit Functionality In A Peripheral Compute Device, Hp Inc

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Today carpal tunnel and hand soreness is a very common symptom among computer users due to a

variety of reason. Users are constantly looking for medical relief of these symptoms using ergonomic

keyboards and TENS units to relieve these symptoms. Our method would integrate the electrode

current passing technology of a TENS unit into the mouse peripheral so users may enable/disable

electrode stimulus to their hand to relieve symptoms during use of their mouse.

Monitor With Integrated Desk Air Purifier, Hp Inc

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Today, methods of purifying air have become small and USB‐C powered to allow for personal air

purification of personal space such as the desk. This proposal would integrate a small form factor air

filtration system into the base of the computer monitor to allow for constant air purification of the

localized desk space.

Fan With Multiple Blade Material Design, Hp Inc

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Nowadays, there are several challenges on laptop fan need to overcome from design

perspective, including high flowrate and pressure capability on slim form factor, low

acoustic prominence ratio on high frequency range, and better cost-to-performance

ratio. It’s usually conflictive to achieve high performance while maintain low acoustic

energy concentration on high frequency band. Since traditionally fan is made with single

material, same blade shape and blade-to-blade interval design, energy concentration

on high frequency range is always observed because dense blade number is needed for

performance requirement.