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Measuring And Visualizing User Sentiment Changes Over Multiple Channels, Xinjun Zhang, Qihong Shao, Changyong Zhao, Antonio Nucci
Measuring And Visualizing User Sentiment Changes Over Multiple Channels, Xinjun Zhang, Qihong Shao, Changyong Zhao, Antonio Nucci
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Techniques are provided to simultaneously infer approximately where a speaker is looking and the speaker's emotion during a conversation. Due to privacy concerns, only the speaker's approximate facial features may be estimated. The inferred face may be converted into a cartoon face that retains the main facial features. This may enhance user interaction experience even when a speaker does not turn on video in teleconference.
Cupholder With Individual Temperature Control, Verena Blunder
Cupholder With Individual Temperature Control, Verena Blunder
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No abstract provided.
Timely Request Of Driverless Transport Vehicles In A Modular Assembly System, Verena Blunder
Timely Request Of Driverless Transport Vehicles In A Modular Assembly System, Verena Blunder
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No abstract provided.
Water Ripples Effect In 3d With Enclosed Front Grill, Verena Blunder
Water Ripples Effect In 3d With Enclosed Front Grill, Verena Blunder
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No abstract provided.
Any Positioning Possibility For Holes, Breakthroughs, Pins, Brackets And Holders Through The Use Of Two Eccentric Discs, Verena Blunder
Any Positioning Possibility For Holes, Breakthroughs, Pins, Brackets And Holders Through The Use Of Two Eccentric Discs, Verena Blunder
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No abstract provided.
The Use Of Discontiguous Interposers To Stack Multiple Printed Circuit Boards, Reza Ghajar, Vijay L. Asrani
The Use Of Discontiguous Interposers To Stack Multiple Printed Circuit Boards, Reza Ghajar, Vijay L. Asrani
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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to the use of discontiguous interposers to facilitate the stacking of multiple printed circuit boards (PCBs). In some aspects, an architecture of a subassembly of a system is described that uses the discontiguous interposers to stack multiple PCBs. The architecture is beneficial to heat transfer characteristics while accommodating electromagnetic shielding performance needs of the system. In other aspects, a manufacturing technique is described that panelizes the discontiguous interposers in a fashion that results in manufacturing efficiency gains.
Low Power State To Avoid Battery Damage Due To Excessive Drain, Daisuke Nojiri
Low Power State To Avoid Battery Damage Due To Excessive Drain, Daisuke Nojiri
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Rechargeable batteries in portable devices can be damaged permanently and become unrecoverable when completely drained. Such a situation arises when a device is left idle for a long period of time. This disclosure describes techniques to prevent battery damage during extended idle periods. When an idle state is detected, a low power state is selected for the computing device based upon a battery state of charge. The selection of the state is based on a comparison of the measured remaining battery capacity with a predetermined threshold. If the battery state of charge meets the threshold, the computing device is placed …
Adapter With Power Allocable Among Multiple Output Ports, Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Doug Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
Adapter With Power Allocable Among Multiple Output Ports, Chao Fei, Honggang Sheng, Doug Osterhout, Srikanth Lakshmikanthan
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Multi-output chargers typically limit the maximum power per output port. This disclosure describes a low cost, low complexity, multi-output charger/adapter that can allocate a total available power smoothly among multiple output ports.
Adaptive Biasing Of Radio-Frequency Power Amplifiers, Ming Sun, Fei He, Mike Kincaid
Adaptive Biasing Of Radio-Frequency Power Amplifiers, Ming Sun, Fei He, Mike Kincaid
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Radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PA) have a nearly linear response only at small input amplitudes, with their outputs gradually saturating as input amplitudes increase. This slightly sub-linear transfer characteristic gives rise to out-of-band emissions, which can potentially interfere with other users of the RF spectrum. Regulatory requirements place limits on the maximum out-of-band emissions by a device. In turn, these translate to operating the PA at a highly linear region, e.g., at low input amplitudes compared to the dynamic range of the PA. However, low input amplitudes are associated with low PA efficiencies. This disclosure describes techniques to adapt the …
Switch Strategy For Smart Utility Network Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Phy Based On Reinforcement Learning In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Ling Wei, Wenjia Wu, Chuanwei Li, Leo Yu
Switch Strategy For Smart Utility Network Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Phy Based On Reinforcement Learning In Low-Power And Lossy Networks, Ling Wei, Wenjia Wu, Chuanwei Li, Leo Yu
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Techniques are described herein for a switch strategy based on actor-critic reinforcement learning. This depends on not only the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) and packet loss rate but also on the distribution of error segments in a packet. The states, actions, and values for the actor-critic model may be defined to fit the switch strategy. The mechanism of dynamical adjustment may depend on the different PHY formats.
Adhesive System With Superior Drop And Creep Performance, Yiwen Wu, Xiaoping Qin
Adhesive System With Superior Drop And Creep Performance, Yiwen Wu, Xiaoping Qin
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This disclosure describes an adhesive system that imparts superior drop and creep performance properties to display screens used in devices. The adhesive system is suitable for devices in which the display screen are not horizontal (parallel to the ground), e.g., smart displays. The adhesive system combines an adhesive that has high drop performance with an adhesive that has superior creep resistance. The adhesive system includes portions of an adhesive liner that utilize the adhesive with high creep resistance and portions of the adhesive liner that utilize the adhesive with good drop performance to bond the display screen to the device.
Warning Mobile Device Camera Users Of Potential Dangers, N/A
Warning Mobile Device Camera Users Of Potential Dangers, N/A
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This publication describes methods of warning a user of a mobile device camera application of potentially dangerous locations and situations. In aspects, a danger warning manager on the mobile device acquires context signals (e.g., captured images, global navigation satellite system location information, social media history for a location) and analyzes these context signals to determine a level of risk. Upon determining that the user is potentially in danger, the danger warning manager causes the mobile device to present warning notifications to the user.
Distributed Destination Advertisement Object (Dao) Projection For Peer-To-Peer Routing In Low Power And Lossy Networks (Llns), Huimin She, Pascal Thubert, Harbor Dong, Li Zhao
Distributed Destination Advertisement Object (Dao) Projection For Peer-To-Peer Routing In Low Power And Lossy Networks (Llns), Huimin She, Pascal Thubert, Harbor Dong, Li Zhao
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Presented herein is a recursive method to find a common ancestor to a source node (source), a destination node (destination), and intermediate nodes in a constrained network, as well as to compute shortcut route(s) in order to offload the root of mundane routing computations. The techniques presented herein provide methods to filter neighbor information that is provided to a common ancestor node in order to enable these operation in a constrained network.
Distributed Ledger Addressing, Jeff Venable
Distributed Ledger Addressing, Jeff Venable
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Proposed herein is an object-granularity addressing scheme to perform input/output operations on a blockchain.
Self-Organizing Meshes Using Distributed Ledger Systems, Jeff Venable, Greg Shepherd, Alok Nikhil, Ralf Rantzau, Ijsbrand Wijnands
Self-Organizing Meshes Using Distributed Ledger Systems, Jeff Venable, Greg Shepherd, Alok Nikhil, Ralf Rantzau, Ijsbrand Wijnands
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Techniques described herein provide innovation relating to directing traffic through a distributed network. A first node can receive packets that are directed to a second node. The first node can determine that the second node is a member of the distributed network based on information within a distributed ledger stored locally on the first node in which the second node is a member based on fulfilling a condition within a smart contract that manages membership. A tunnel from the first node to the second node can be generated to send the packets to the second node. Previously available blockchain systems …
Providing Event Search Results In A Map, Akash Nanavati, Andrew Levine, Aniket Ray, I-Kuei Chen, Andrew Duchi, Bharat Kalyanpur
Providing Event Search Results In A Map, Akash Nanavati, Andrew Levine, Aniket Ray, I-Kuei Chen, Andrew Duchi, Bharat Kalyanpur
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Users utilize online maps to search for places as well as events of interest. Current map services are primarily focused on place results and have limited capabilities to return events that match user queries. This disclosure describes techniques to determine query intent and searching for matching places, events, and web results. The matching results are filtered to selectively display places, events, or both events and places, based on the determined query intent. A carousel of events is provided in the results user interface. The prominence of the carousel is determined based on the confidence that the query is for events.
Apparel Information Sharing And Discovery Tool, Sandro Feuz, Miglė Padegimaitė
Apparel Information Sharing And Discovery Tool, Sandro Feuz, Miglė Padegimaitė
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This disclosure describes sharing and discovery of apparel information between users. Per techniques of this disclosure, an application is provided that enables users to share apparel information with other users that are proximate to the user. With user permission, location information is used to determine proximity and to surface apparel information of proximate users. Links are provided within the app to enable users to obtain information regarding items of interest. Users that share information via the app can be rewarded for discovery and sales of shared items. The described techniques are implemented with specific user permission to use shared items …
Intelligent Signal Collection For Detection Of Automated Interactive Session, Anonymous
Intelligent Signal Collection For Detection Of Automated Interactive Session, Anonymous
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When user interactions with an online platform are spoofed, e.g., by the use of automated interactive agents or bots that mimic user behavior, such platform is negatively affected, e.g., may lose ad revenue. This disclosure describes techniques to selectively collect signals from interactive sessions and use the collected signals to determine whether an interactive session is a genuine user session of a human user, or an automated interactive session. The collected signals can include static and/or dynamic signals and are matched to a session identifier. The signals are inspected to assign quality scores and the session is determined as a …
Adaptive Bandwidth Usage In Sdwan, Uni Chen, Alan Xiao-Rong Wang, Jingxia Xia, Jiaoming Li
Adaptive Bandwidth Usage In Sdwan, Uni Chen, Alan Xiao-Rong Wang, Jingxia Xia, Jiaoming Li
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Presented herein are solutions for adaptive bandwidth usage in wide area networks (WANs) such as software-defined wide-area networks (SDWANs or SD-WANs). The solutions presented herein include inbound link bandwidth detection, and usage/overrun publication along with a percentage of traffic to be moved. The solutions presented herein also adjust outbound traffic based on a peer site's overrun alarm and percentage information. The solutions presented herein may be employed for a Multiple Producer sites, Single Consumer site (MPSC) use case and a load-balance coexists with preferred policy use case in SDWAN. The solutions presented herein also allow for fast convergence.
Counting Video Ad Opportunities Using The Durations Of Ads And Ad Breaks, Matt Ross, Zhen Guo
Counting Video Ad Opportunities Using The Durations Of Ads And Ad Breaks, Matt Ross, Zhen Guo
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In static display, an ad opportunity is easily modeled by an ad request. In video, an ad opportunity depends on the duration of the break in the video to be filled and is not readily equivalent to an ad request. The counting of ad opportunities in video is further complicated if the ad is pre-fetched in advance of the ad break. This disclosure describes techniques to accurately count and report ad opportunities in a video based on the durations of ads and ad breaks.
Providing Targeted Event Recommendations, Henry Scott-Green, Devvret Rishi
Providing Targeted Event Recommendations, Henry Scott-Green, Devvret Rishi
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A significant portion of live event tickets go unsold, mainly due to a lack of awareness among prospective attendees. Providing relevant event recommendations to the potential audience for an event is a significant industry challenge. This disclosure describes techniques that issue personalized event or artist recommendations based on factors obtained with user permission. For example, such factors may include user history pertaining to location, entertainment, search, social media, etc.
Utilizing A Set Of Processed First Frames For Expediting The Settling Of Image-Processing Settings, Ruiduo Yang, Yichang Shih
Utilizing A Set Of Processed First Frames For Expediting The Settling Of Image-Processing Settings, Ruiduo Yang, Yichang Shih
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This publication describes techniques and processes directed by an image capture manager to hasten the determination of appropriate image-processing settings, such as the “3A’s” (Auto- Focus, Auto-Exposure, and Auto-White Balance), in an imaging device (e.g., a digital camera, a smartphone). The image capture manager can direct an imaging processor (e.g., image signal processor (ISP)) to improve the quality of the image by generating a set of processed first frames and performing object detection on the set to identify an object of interest (e.g., a face). These operations are performed to the end that the object of interest may be identified …
Measuring Stereo Camera Alignment Using Depth Map Smoothness, Edward T. Chang
Measuring Stereo Camera Alignment Using Depth Map Smoothness, Edward T. Chang
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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to measuring stereo camera alignment using depth map smoothness as a quality metric for the stereo calibration process. The quality of the depth map generated by the stereo cameras, as measured by smoothness, provides feedback indicative of a need (or not) for stereo calibration to account for camera misalignment. A smooth depth map indicates the stereo camera is aligned. Measuring depth map smoothness closes the feedback loop for gauging how well the stereo calibration process is working.
Face Recognition For Fast Information Retrieval And Record Lookup, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr., Rafael Blanes, Daniel Sheng, Arjun Narayanan
Face Recognition For Fast Information Retrieval And Record Lookup, Joseph Edwin Johnson Jr., Rafael Blanes, Daniel Sheng, Arjun Narayanan
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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to taking a red, green and blue (RGB) image of a customer’s face, identifying landmarks on the face, creating a face box region, thumbnailing the face box region, sending the thumbnail to a face recognition model where face data is embedded into a vector, and using the vector in a multi-dimensional tree searching algorithm to quickly look up or retrieve information or a record relating to the customer in a database. The face image capture may be performed using standard RGB camera technology to enable broad, cost-effective business adoption. Two-factor authentication may be …
Camera Capture And Frame-Rate Synchronization In A Multi-Camera System, Chris Ye, Sam Chang, Donghui Han, Wen Yu Chien, Zhijun He
Camera Capture And Frame-Rate Synchronization In A Multi-Camera System, Chris Ye, Sam Chang, Donghui Han, Wen Yu Chien, Zhijun He
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This publication describes methods and techniques that align auto exposures, frame length times, frames-per-second frequencies, and frame length lines, in a user equipment, such as a smartphone, that utilizes a multi-camera system. In one aspect, the multi-camera system contains one front-facing red-green-blue (RGB) camera and two front-facing infrared (IR) cameras. When a user utilizes the multi-camera system consisting of RGB camera(s) and IR camera(s) it may be referred to as RGB and IR depth (RGBIRD) image capturing. Although this publication illustrates RGBIRD image capturing with a smartphone with a multi-camera system that contains one RGB camera and two IR cameras, …
Logical Camera Module For A Heterogeneous Camera System, Zhijun He, Donghui Han, Sam Chang, Colin Ko, Wen Yu Chien, Michael Schoenberg
Logical Camera Module For A Heterogeneous Camera System, Zhijun He, Donghui Han, Sam Chang, Colin Ko, Wen Yu Chien, Michael Schoenberg
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This publication describes techniques and apparatuses that enable a smartphone, with a heterogeneous camera system (e.g., cameras having different physical specifications) to combine image information from multiple cameras utilizing a logical camera module. Cameras having different physical specifications include color cameras (e.g., RGB cameras) and near-infrared (NIR) cameras. In one aspect, the logical camera module is implemented in an operating system of the smartphone and the logical camera module is accessible to applications on the device through an application programming interface (API). Applications may access the API to obtain color, depth, or color and depth image information.
Hyperspectral Data Fusion For Multifactor Face-Based Authentication, Sean Korphi, Vincent Mei
Hyperspectral Data Fusion For Multifactor Face-Based Authentication, Sean Korphi, Vincent Mei
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This publication describes systems and techniques directed to hyperspectral data fusion for multifactor face-based authentication. The described systems and techniques include a user equipment with electromagnetic wave modules for emitting and/or sensing multiple spectrums of electromagnetic waves. Based on hyperspectral data associated with electromagnetic waves reflected from the face of a person, a data fusion manager application of the user equipment performs computations to authenticate the person. The hyperspectral data is, in effect, a multifactor face-based authentication key.
Mmwave Radar Return For Characterization Of Burned Skin, Sean Korphi, Vincent Mei
Mmwave Radar Return For Characterization Of Burned Skin, Sean Korphi, Vincent Mei
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This publication describes techniques and systems directed to classifying skin injury using a radar propagation technique to measure the health of tissue below the surface of the skin. The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum can be broadcast from an active sensor(s) (e.g., transmitting antenna(s)) on a computing device towards the skin of a person. The mmWaves penetrate the skin and reflectively scatter differently for various tissues and burn types due to changes in dielectric properties. Sensor(s) (e.g., receiving antenna(s)) on the computing device can sense the scattering of the mmWaves reflected by the skin and collect data for …
Perceptual Correction Of Touch Contact Locations, Philip Quinn
Perceptual Correction Of Touch Contact Locations, Philip Quinn
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This publication describes techniques directed to perceptual correction of a location of a touch contact a user makes to a touch interface of an electronic device. Instructions included in a touch-contact location manager application, when executed by logic of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform multiple operations that manage the location of the touch contact. Such operations include detecting a region associated with the touch contact, computing a touch location estimate, determining an orientation of the touch interface of the electronic device and an orientation of the user’s finger during the touch contact, and performing a perceptual …
Automatic Display Brightness Control With Multiple Sensors, Jung Ook Hong, Yi Zhang, Andrew Lehmer
Automatic Display Brightness Control With Multiple Sensors, Jung Ook Hong, Yi Zhang, Andrew Lehmer
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This publication describes a user equipment (UE), such as a smartphone, that supports automatic display brightness control by using multiple sensors and interpreting the context in which a user utilizes the UE. The UE may automatically control the display brightness using different methods. In one embodiment, the UE may measure the ambient light (lux) using a frontfacing ambient-light sensor (ALS) and a rear-facing ALS. In one embodiment, in addition to the front-facing and rear-facing ALSs and/or front and rear cameras, the UE may utilize edge ALSs. In one embodiment, in addition to the front-facing and the rear-facing ALSs, the UE …