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Printing Out Computer-Aware Data Along With Human-Aware Data On Paper, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of marking computer-aware data into a format which human is not aware

of along with human-aware data on paper.

It means a paper is printed out with both human-aware data and computer-aware data corresponding to

human-aware data. The computer-aware data represents binary (or hex) code which includes both the

converted code corresponding to human-aware data and meta data which can have additional information.

The binary code can be encrypted and compressed if in need.

Panoramic Three-Dimensional Image Capture Using Smart Glasses, Anonymous

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This disclosure describes smart glasses that enable a user to capture a stereoscopic, panoramic image of a scene.

Dynamic Display Resolution In Pre-Os Environment, Hp Inc

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New techniques have advanced the output quality of monitor displays, which continue to improve

day by day. Therefore, recent displays have a higher resolution than ever before. It is not only

TV or desktop monitors that have a larger and higher-resolution display, but even notebook

monitors also support high resolution. In the operating system (OS) environment, there exists

an interface for users to change their resolution. It can be fine-tuned to a user’s preference. But

in a pre-OS environment like a command shell, such an interface does not exist. Therefore, a

user will see very small text with a high …

System And Method For Navigation Systems Of Video Games, Hp Inc

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This disclosure describes a system to help video game players navigate within the game world. This

navigation system is built upon maps of video games, of which this disclosure also provides a method for

creating.

Video game players with busy real lives want to immerse into gaming environment in their spare time.

They want to experience the gaming mechanisms, plots, or sense of accomplishment, but do not

necessarily have the leisure to explore the game world or solve puzzles. A good navigation system built

on top of a map can better help game players experience games. Similarly, game players with …

Intelligent Wallpaper For Dual-Display Systems, Hp Inc

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A method for automatically generate the 2nd display wallpapers by identifying the wallpaper content of the 1st display

for Dual-Display systems.

With current Windows OS, users need to manually change the wallpapers for 1st and 2nd display respectively. This

article describes how can the wallpaper setting for Dual-Display systems be automatic and with content connection. For

Dual-Display Systems, users may want to set the 2nd display wallpaper automatically based on the content of 1st

display wallpaper. This article describes how to fulfill this purpose.

The method described in this article is when user selects the wallpaper for 1st display, the …

Objective Voice Quality Prediction For Ip Networks In Real Time Voice Over Internet Protocol Applications, Hua Gao, Xinmin Yan

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Presented herein is a system for monitoring/predicting objective voice quality in Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications. The system is configured to , collect training datasets and generate online-training prediction models of voice quality.

Optimized Traffic Forwarding In Multicast Virtual Private Network (Vpn) Core, Sameer Gulrajani, Rishabh Parekh, Arvind Venkateswaran, Swadesh Agrawal

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Presented herein are techniques for leveraging the global Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) multicast virtual private network (mVPN) view (using mVPN context discovery) on the route reflector to optimize the distribution of the traffic forwarded in a BGP C-multicast mVPN core where receives are only located behind the provider edge (PE) routers (PEs).

Enhanced Whiteboard Capture For Chat, Anon Ymous

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A system may provide a mechanism for chat and collaboration services, whereby:

1) The system may allow a user of a chat or collaboration service to activate a specialized flow for uploading a whiteboard image, which uploaded image may then be subject to further processes of the system pertaining to whiteboard images.

2) The system may allow a user to tag or otherwise indicate images uploaded to a chat or collaboration service as being whiteboard images, subsequent to those images having been uploaded, which images may then be subject to further processes of the system pertaining to whiteboard images.

3) …

Geofence-Based Access To Parked Calls, Anon Ymous

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A geolocation-based access control may be implemented for parked calls. Only users who enter a particular geofenced area can see and answer parked calls. All users outside of the geofenced location are unable to see or answer parked calls. For example, Costco’s Food Court Department for a specific Costco location is geofenced to define the perimeters of the department. Any user that enters the geofenced area will be placed on a private park location list that allows the user to see and answer any parked calls to that department. Any user that leaves the geofenced area will be removed from …

Fabric As Storage To Avoid Download Failure On Multiple Devices At Branch/Data Centers, Balaji Sundararajan, Ankush Verma, Preety Mordani, Igor Manassypov, Rohan Karamandi, Anand Oswal, Mouli Balasubramanian, Sireesha Todeti

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Presented herein are techniques to transmit virtual machine (VM) images from a controller to a switch fabric, based on capacity, and to distribute the VM images to a virtual network infrastructure, as needed.

Obfuscating And Deobfuscating Code Jump Addresses Via Readable Memory, Aaron Vaage

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For enhanced security, code execution can be obfuscated to mask the specific memory locations to which the code flow jumps. In such cases, the traditional approach is to obfuscate the corresponding instructions using writeable-executable memory and deobfuscate them at the time of execution. However, writable-executable memory can allow execution of arbitrary code, thus posing a security risk. Therefore, many application environments forbid the use of writable-executable memory, thus hampering code obfuscation via the traditional mechanism. This disclosure describes techniques to perform obfuscation of connections between instructions within executable code without the use of writable-executable memory.

Class-Based Language Model For Domain-Specific Speech Recognition, Anonymous

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Virtual assistants, as provided via devices such as smart displays or smart speakers utilize automatic speech recognition (ASR) techniques to interpret spoken commands. ASR is performed by the use of a language model that is trained using a training corpus that includes spoken variations of the commonly expected commands. However, such training does not account for words or phrases that are domain specific, e.g., names of contacts (used for calling), names of media items or artists (used for media playback), etc. Virtual assistants can therefore experience a high rate of failure to interpret commands. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically …

System And Method To Provide Safety Zones In A Virtual Workplace, Anonymous Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes guardians for an enterprise that enable the enterprise to provide safety zones for users in a virtual workplace. An admin of the enterprise provides headsets to the users, who are required to take part in business activities. The admin utilizes an admin headset having an admin guardian to create the guardian for each of the users. The admin preconfigures an experience with each of the guardians for the headsets that are to be provisioned. After the experience with each of the guardians is preconfigured, the admin guardian informs the admin a size of a room to …

Structured Flow Label, Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo, Francois Clad, Ahmed Abdelsalam

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This proposal provides a technique to restructure a Flow Label into 4-bits of per‑flow flags and 16-bits of entropy within controlled domains. In various implementations, the flags may be used for performance information, Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM), or the like. This proposal may allow providing a premium service on top of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

Classifying Augmented Reality (Ar) Effects, Anonymous Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes a method for classifying augmented reality (AR) effects using tags derived from content of the AR effects. A tag generator (for example, an image classifier, a natural language classifier) derives the tags from images or thumbnails with the AR effects that are given as an input to the tag generator. The tag generator includes an AR comparison unit, a confidence score generation unit and a dictionary database, which are utilized to generate the tags for the AR effects. Each of the tags includes a text string, a confidence score and metadata about how the tag was …

Nearest-Neighbor Based Manifold Expansion Technique For Active Learning, Anonymous Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes a nearest-neighbor based manifold expansion technique integrated into an active learner for seeking human review. Initially, the active learner performs a sampling formulation in which an unlabeled dataset, including unlabeled examples, is provided as an input to the active learner. The unlabeled dataset is then divided into seed datasets (i.e. a positive seed dataset and a negative seed dataset) and a test dataset. The positive seed dataset includes positive seeds, the negative seed dataset includes negative seeds and the test dataset includes test examples. In a voting process, each of the positive seeds and the negative …

Detecting Change In Battery Condition And Preventing Damage Using Integrated Sensors, N/A

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During their operational life, rechargeable batteries in consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, wearables, laptops, etc. can experience changes that can pose a safety hazard, e.g., swelling, leakages, etc. This disclosure describes techniques that use sensors integrated within the battery to measure battery parameters such as pressure, humidity, chemical composition, temperature, number of charge-discharge cycles, etc. to detect changes in battery condition. Corrective action is taken to prevent battery damage, e.g., by limiting the maximum voltage, charging level, charging or discharging current, shutting down or disconnecting the battery, etc.

Lighting Control With Wifi/Bluetooth Device Scanner, Riku Immonen

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The Lighting controller integrated WiFi/Bluetooth device scanner detects probe request (WiFi) and inquire request (Bluetooth) messages from different WiFi/Bluetooth channels and controls the lighting according to device findings. The controller can count MAC-addresses of different smart devices and put the lights on and off according the total device count.

Key words: Lighting controller, Probe request, Inquire request, MAC-address, WiFi, Bluetooth

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), University of Jyvaskyla (2020)

Detection Of Automated Facial Beautification By A Camera Application By Comparing A Face To A Rearranged Face, Clemenz Portmann, Yuriy Romanenko, Vinit Modi

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This publication describes systems and techniques to detect if a camera application is applying an automated mechanism to beautify a human face present in a photograph. Some camera applications may automatically adjust characteristics of a face to “beautify” them, such as by changing a skin tone. Although provided as a feature, this “beautification” potentially can be interpreted as cultural insensitivity or can result in mental health concerns. Accordingly, enabling a user to at least have knowledge of automated beautification can be beneficial. Detecting beautification is accomplished by determining if a camera application adjusts pixels corresponding to a face but not …

Image Forming Apparatus Using Frameless Motor, Hp Inc

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The rotating body in the image forming apparatus having a sensitive effect on noise

/ vibration is driven by a frameless motor. By connecting directly parts between the

motor and the rotor, it is possible to minimize the error of rotational speed, image

defect and acoustic noise caused by the accessories.

Process To Load A Filter With Reliable Sealing, Hp Inc

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Here is disclosed a process of loading the high efficiency filter in the most ergonomic possible manner and using the

existing user access direction (main door of print chamber) to further save space allocated for access. A handle is

pressed after loading the filter to activate the expansion of a system which pushes the filter upwards, hence closing

its seal against the filter housing. The system works to take a horizontal force from the user and express it as a

purely vertical force to the filter. This maintains filter positioning and minimizes risk of damaging the seal.

To raise and …

Powder Ratholes Detection System For 3d Printing System, Hp Inc

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Disclosure to explain a system that will enable rat‐hole detection inside a 3D printing build Unit. One of

the main problems observed when using different kind of powders is the flowability these kinds of

powders have. This powder flowability and consistency differences make the current system to have

problems to ensure powder feeding to Archimedes. For instance, TPU powder properties is showing

several cases of rat‐holes, which is the name under which this phenomenon is known. Powder cannot

flow, not covering feeding areas and therefore not supplying powder to archimedes screws.

This disclosure will present a system that will provide …

Semi-Automated Decacking System For 3d Printer, Hp Inc

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Disclosure to explain a system that will help customers during decacking process, optimizing timings and

making process less human dependent. Current decacking process in some 3D printing material

processing stations are based on two buttons (buttons that causes several escalations in the field) that

help moving the platform of the Build Unit up and down manually to carry out decacking process.

Customers starts vacuuming printed parts and make the platform move up as parts start to get cleaned.

The proposed solution will remove these buttons and will make the platform move up and down at specific

speeds, depending on the …

Reading Hidden Meta-Information Using Thermal Technology, Hp Inc

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This disclosure could be used to read internal information using thermal

properties of the parts.

Indicating Remaining Battery Life In Terms Of A Number Of Activities That Can Be Performed Before Power Is Depleted, Alexandru Damian, Victor Carbune

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This publication describes systems and techniques to indicate to a user of an electronic device remaining battery life in terms of a number of activities that can likely be performed before the battery’s power is depleted. The user interface (UI) or operating system (OS) of many electronic devices, such as those of smartphones, provides an indication of remaining battery life in terms of a percentage of a fully-charged battery. For example, when a battery is halfway depleted, the electronic device indicates fifty percent (50%) remaining power. Many users are not, however, able to convert a percentage of total battery charge …

Personalized Augmented Reality Content Delivery Using Computer Vision, Aiko Nakano, Diane Wang

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This disclosure describes techniques that personalize, with user permission, a user’s real surroundings with augmented reality content that is matched to user preferences and history. With user permission, an AR device, e.g., AR glasses, a head-mounted device, etc., discovers physical objects in the user’s surroundings. The device downloads AR content relevant to the physical objects that match user preferences and prior user history. The downloaded AR content is delivered to the user via text-to-speech, audio, visual, or audiovisual mediums. A next point-of-interest in the user’s journey is suggested.

Providing Informative Nutrition Facts For Food Ordering, Xinru Yang, Mingtong Wu, Xingyue Chen

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Online food ordering services provide little to no information regarding nutritional facts. This makes it difficult for customers to make decisions based on their nutrition and health needs. This disclosure describes an online food ordering service that provides users the nutritional facts of a food item prior to order placement. The information is provided via a suitable user interface of a website or app that enables the user to drill down further to obtain more granular information. If the user permits, prior orders of the users are used to provide periodic feedback regarding eating behavior and nutritional intake.

Asic-Friendly Srv6-Based Sd-Wan Service Theft Prevention Mechanism, Clarence Filsfils, Pablo Camarillo

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Presented herein is a security mechanism that prevents service theft with software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) services provided with Segment Routing over IPv6 dataplane (SRv6). The security mechanism described herein is valid in SRv6 deployments, but also provides line-rate security at PEs that do not have dedicated crypto-hardware.

Using Clustering Algorithm And Fog Computing For En-Route Filtering In Low Power And Loss Networks, Lele Zhang, Akram Sheriff, Chuanwei Li

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Due to trustless link quality in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), Power Outage Notification (PON) and Power Restoration Notification (PRN) messages are often dropped or delayed en-route, which may fail to satisfy customer requirements in practice. Therefore, proposed herein are techniques that use machine learning and Fog computing to efficiently deduce missing PON/PRN messages.

Surface Positioning Sensor For Contact Between Unrestrained Objects, Ryan Ehrenreich, Stuart Scollay, Allison Juhasz

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The device of this invention is a flexible, adaptable, accurate system for detecting surface positioning data during physical contact between multiple objects. For any pair of objects, the technology records where a fixed location on the surface of the first object (striker object or Striker) makes contact within the perimeter of a positioning sensor on the surface of the second object (target object or Target).