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Hierarchical Multimodal Clustering Using A Multi-Task Network With Highlight Selection: A Novel Approach To Organize An Image Gallery, Hp Inc

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We propose an automatic pipeline for organizing, ranking, and suggesting the best images in a user’s

gallery based on computer vision methods on constrained devices. In contrast to most present solutions,

our current implementation clusters the images using a hierarchical approach based on three levels of

information (GPS location, datetime and image content) and suggests the best images based on

aesthetical and technical scores using a hybrid network. This compact network shares the same backbone

for the scores prediction while also being used to extract features from the images, which are then used

to clustering. This makes the solution lightweight, …

Dual Panel Hinge And Auto Switch Design, Hp Inc

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Current dual panel NB concept just as traditional NB and rotate system for dual panel support,

which display is difficult to be used and webcam function will be limited.

Data Property Driven Bt Protocol Switches On Devices, Hp Inc

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The method described here enables auto switching between different BT

protocols based on the data volume transferred, content format and

property of the data.

One Hob With A Human Proximity Sensing Function-Id-04819, Christian Mohr

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The invention applies a proximity sensing module to a hob, which senses a human presence. A microwave sensor module working as the proximity sensing module generates microwave, which penetrates a non-metal layer and detects the reflected microwave to determine the human presence in a predetermined distance. The appliance switches off or switches based on the detection results determining whether the presence/absence of a user is.

Thermoelectric Generation In Home Appliance-Id-05011, Christian Mohr

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The invention applies a thermoelectric generator (TEG) to devices/home appliances for enhancing improve power consumption. The TEG converts thermal energy into electric current based on the difference of temperature gradient of the TEG materials with different Seebeck coefficient, making a reduction to total electricity for the operation of an appliance/device. Further, the electric current generator TEG provides power to a sensor attaching to pot utensils, e.g., a temperature sensor for monitoring food temperature, without relying on the continuous input of external electricity.

Hidden And Tool-Free Installation Of An Appliance In The Furniture_Id-05037, Christian Mohr

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The invention proposes an installation for fixing an appliance in furniture, wherein a fastening element, e.g., a clip, which allows a tool-free installation/mounting of the appliance and the furniture. The installation solution provides no visible mark/cavity on the furniture. The invention uses prefixed clips on walls of the appliance, which allows their easy installation with home furniture.

Slide-Based Navigation And Understanding For Video Content, Matthew Sharifi

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In educational videos, the speaker often presents a set of slides that serve as logical cues and content markers. Currently, video platforms do not use the strong cues already available in the form of slides. This disclosure describes techniques that enable video viewers to more naturally navigate the video. With user permission, computer vision techniques are applied to video content to detect whether it includes a presentation, to track individual slide changes, and to recognize content displayed on each slide. Automatic understanding of slide content is utilized to improve speech recognition and content captioning, to enhance video search, and to …

Detection And Prevention Of Eapol-Start Flood Attacks In Lln Environments, Lele Zhang, Yajun Xia, Akram Sheriff, Chuanwei Li

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Due to limited resources in wireless sensors, such sensors are easily attacked by flood joining messages. To address these types of challenges, techniques are presented herein that support making simple nodes (such as wireless sensors) "smarter" to allow them to identify malicious node(s) from legal neighbors. Aspects of the techniques presented herein leverage, among other things, the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) over local area network (LAN), or EAPOL, protocol and employ, among other things, an EAPOL neighbor status profile, or ENSP. A node may generate an ENSP for each connection rather than for each node based on a unique address. …

Bare Cost 3 In 1 Sensing Solution, Hp Inc

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Bare cost 3 in 1 sensing solution is a method that allows us to use the same set of low‐cost reflective sensors to detect media size, tray insertion/removal and orientation of the media through use of carefully placed reflectors.

Intelligent Mechanism For Robocall Prevention Using Artificial Intelligence-Driven Interactive Question And Answer Techniques, Anupam Mukherjee, Faisal Siyavudeen, Sanjay Sinha

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A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized auto-dialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot. Robocalls are often associated with political and telemarketing phone campaigns. Some robocalls use personalized audio messages to simulate an actual personal phone call. Criminals and dishonest robocallers often alter or spoof the calling number of their outbound telephone calls in order to deceive a called party. This deception increases the chance that the called party will answer a robocall. In other cases, the spam calls may be more malicious. This proposal provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-based interactive and intelligent …

Newland Bar Code Scanner (Usb Device) Energy Star 8.0 Support Base On Cpu C10 And Modern Standby Status, Hp Inc

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To support Energy 8.0, the Newland Bar Code Scanner needs to support long idle and short idle that module to lower its power consumption.

Note:

BCS means Bar Code Scanner

MSC means Modern Standby Connected

S0ix means Modern Standby, or "Low Power S0 Idle".

C10 means one of Intel CPU power state (C0, C1, …, C10), C10: current Intel CPU is supported lowest power consumption

eSPI (command) means eSPI virtual wire signal from System, emulate the GPIO control but not a real GPIO.

Ink Consumption Forecasting During Pandemic Using Deep Learning Approach, Hp Inc

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A novel methodology is designed to forecast ink usage for following 2 months from multivariable time

series data. Proposed approach also incorporates the impact of unprecedented events such as

COVID pandemic. It uses Deep Learning Encoder Decoder model for identifying the seasonality,

trend and sudden changepoints in multivariate time series.

Converging Multiple Print Queues To Single Universal Print Queue, Hp Inc

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Managing and maintaining a multitude of print queues is a costly affair for any IT department in an

enterprise environment. This not only costs money but also time and human efforts. The cost is not confined to the

enterprise but also to the developer of the printer and related software products. This paper attempts to provide a

solution to eliminate or reduce the print queue clutter on customer’s personal computers and thus reduce cost, time and

stress of managing & maintaining the printing systems and software.

Detachable Speaker With Headphone Function Design For Aio, Hp Inc

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Current audio/Mic of All in One is not good to use especially for frequently remote

meeting/Gaming or Music listening in New normal Status. In some quiet required

environment, user cannot use speaker directly.

As a user, they need an external headset to operate and tidy the wire in their daily life. It’s

also a trouble to take this big accessory each time.

Packing Algorithm Which Minimizes 3d Build Cost Based On Pre-Trained Machine Learning Model, Hp Inc

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One of the main decision points for selecting a 3DP technology for production applications is the cost

per produced part. In order to enable this choice-point it is required to provide a relatively accurate

estimation of the cost per part. We have developed a way to calculate the cost automatically,

transparently to the user and more accurately than most of the currently available solutions for the

different 3DP technologies, by using a trained machine learning model in the nesting algorithm

executed in the Pre-print SW application. Then, the proposed method is intended to be combined with

any other packing algorithm …

Techniques To Improve The Hit Rate Of Unicast Node-To-Node (N2n) Delivery In Channel-Hopping And Multi-Hop Low-Power And Lossy Networks (Llns), Lele Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Huimin She, Yajun Xia

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In a large scale wireless mesh network, such as a Wireless Smart Utility Network (Wi-SUN), there can be many losses. For example, a transmitter typically does not know the availability of a receiver when transmitting, which can create losses. In another example, link quality measurements, such as expected transmission count (ETX), may not be well represented for every channel. In one instance, this proposal provides an improved scheduling technique that leverages Broadcast Interval (BI) information to determine receive (RX) and transmit (TX) plans for child nodes. Child nodes can select an appropriate parent node according to received schedules, which can …

Inline-Frames To Enable Zero-Friction Cross-Origin Transactions, Kentaro Hara

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While web-users can currently exchange virtual coins, fun tokens, loyalty points, etc., such exchanges are limited to same-origin tokens. For example, points of a game application are exchangeable only within that application. This disclosure describes techniques that utilize inline-frames to enable token exchange in a manner that is both cross-origin and zero-friction. The techniques enable users to securely and confidentially send cross-origin tokens in a single-step process as easy as clicking a like-button, without additional login or confirmation. The techniques enable websites and services to easily micro-monetize (or fun-tokenize) digital content and user activities on the web, thereby inducing a …

Combine Multi-Type Module Card Structure Fixed Design, Hp Inc

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Every module need take up space in the PCBA layout and system internal. When product support multitype

module, it should provide more space in the PCBA layout, but some configuration doesn’t need to

support all module, so they will waste in the non‐use module space. If we can leverage same space for

different module that can saving space and cost. It also can help service to change module for user

request. How to do change different module on the same place is our idea. We design out very clear and

convenience method to resolve this problem.

An Automated Regression Testing Framework For Validating Voxel Data Pipelines, Hp Inc

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A Voxel is the minimal subdivision of a space at the resolution that a device is working. A Voxel Data

Pipeline aims to produce the voxel representation of the content to be consumed by the device from

some input representation, usually as vector data (e.g. triangle meshes). During this process, in most

of the cases it is required that the content 3D geometry suffers one or more transformations to apply

certain compensations which are device specific. Examples are scaling, surface offsets or color

corrections which are required by a 3D Printer to produce the part with the expected part quality …

Optimizing Notifications In A Collaboration Application, Brian Powell, Robert Barton, Jerome Henry, Cesar Obediente

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Collaboration tools typically utilize many manual settings or 'knobs', but often lack an ability to learn what features, settings, etc. may be important to a user, in general. Optimization of individual collaboration tools has been studied; however, such studies are typically focused on making an individual tool more efficient. In contrast, this proposal provides techniques for optimizing collaboration tool notifications based on user habits, real-time context, and behavior in a manner that is not 'just' based on the way in which a user utilizes a particular collaboration tool.

White Balancing Of A Camera In A Home Appliance_Id-05265, Christian Mohr

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The invention proposes that a kitchen appliance with a camera assisted cooking to achieve auto white balance (AWB) by using an algorithm. The algorithm allows the prevention of color biasing, commonly caused by a color channel failure during image processing. The color biasing results in the wrong estimation of food browning to mislead users to end up cooking processes based on the image's information with low qualities. It causes the users to get overcooked or undercooked foods to degrade the user experience. Hence, the invention solves the color biasing issue, thereby allowing accurate identification of food browning inside an oven.

Predicting Consumer's Behaviour_Id-05303, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a kitchen system, particularly to an oven system, providing operation choices based on the prediction of consumer behavior. The oven system comprises an application based on algorithms to detect patterns. The term “Pattern” in this invention means a pattern indicating repeating settings of a product in order to perform the expected task. On the other hand, it is similar that when people do things, we perform them in an individual sequence, and such a sequence runs frequently.

The application based on the algorithms collects and analyzes behavior over a certain time frame about repeating usage and …

Hidden And Tool-Free Installation Of An Appliance In The Furniture_Id-05343, Christian Mohr

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The invention proposes an installation for fixing an appliance in furniture, wherein a fastening element, e.g., a clip, which allows a tool-free installation/mounting of the appliance and the furniture. The installation solution provides no visible mark/cavity on the furniture. The invention uses prefixed clips on walls of the appliance, which allows their easy installation with home furniture.

Autostart Method Of Controlling An Oven For Food Preparation_Id-05459, Christian Mohr

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The invention discloses a method of controlling an oven for food preparation, particularly to an auto-start method. Based on the configuration of a system comprising an oven, an image sensor, and a remote controller, the remote controller directly executes an automatic oven operation based on the received image detection results, wherein the automatic oven operation comprises a step of automatically opening/closing the oven door and a step of setting cooking parameters for food detected by the sensor, and a step of operating a cooking process. Accordingly, the invention implements a fully automatic start of the open operation.

Presentation Mode Oven Function_Id-05289, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to an application included in a kitchen system, particularly to an oven assistance application. The kitchen system further comprises a smart device and an oven, wherein the application is stored in, functions on the smart device, and is configured to control the operation of the oven, e.g., temperature control, image capture, brightness modification, and so on. The application has at least one access to transmit information in a word, sound, or image form to a social platform via internet. While starting to obtain a signal including information from the oven, the application is configured to adjust the …

Vovoh_Ux_Id-05471, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a system capable of storing wordings or phrases as keywords provided from the user oral expression or with a physical user interface, associating appliance settings with the keywords for at least one cooking session, and allowing a user to change or request information of the appliance settings with reference to the previously provided keywords instead of technical specifications, e.g., hard code commends.

Accordingly, this system of the invention enhances the user experience for operating kitchen appliances.

Magnetic Stirrer Lid, Christian Mohr

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The invention relates to a lid with a magnetic stirrer for cookware, which is heated by a surface-cooking home appliance, e.g., a hob appliance. The magnetic stirrer is formed in a rod shape, detachable from the lid, and includes a sensor for detecting either the internal temperature of the cookware or the rotational speed of the stirrer. The hob appliance includes a control unit, a heating unit, and a rotational driving unit, which are beneath the cooktop of the hob appliance. The heating unit is configured to heat the cookware placed on the cooktop, and the rotational driving unit is …

Levitating Rack/Tray, Christian Mohr

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The invention proposes a magnetic levitating rack in an oven for allowing easy its utilization. The magnetic levitating rack moves in and out the oven via magnetic channels formed by the rack and the oven so that users move the rack inside or outside the oven free of any friction, making its use easy and convenient. The invention relates to a magnetic suspension electric cooker for cooking in a restaurant and a home kitchen.

Suppression Of Unintentional Touch Inputs Caused By Moving Content On A Display, Zoltan Egyed

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This publication describes techniques for suppression of unintentional touch inputs caused by moving content on a display of a computing device. Due to a time delay between the moment a user decides to provide a touch input (e.g., a tap, click, swipe, pinch) to the display and the moment the touch input is detected by the device, content may move, changing the local meaning of the touch input. For example, a user may accidentally click “delete” instead of “save” if the content moves during the time it takes the user to provide the touch input. To suppress unintentional touch inputs, …

On-Device Query And Metadata Caching For Expedited Inference And Rendering Of Answer Cards, Keun Soo Yim

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This publication describes methods and techniques for mobile devices to enhance the user experience associated with search applications. In aspects, an Intent Manager associates a query suggestion to a corresponding answer card (e.g., search result) for a given query text. The association may involve the Intent Manager identifying that the submission of a query suggestion results in a search application presenting one or more corresponding answer cards. Further, the association may include the production of metadata relating the query text to the submitted query suggestion. The Intent Manager can then cache the metadata on the device. In doing so, when …