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Projection Device For Generating Augmented Reality User Interfaces, Melissa Daniels, Nhat Vu, Tianchun Yang, Michael Delgaudio, Jiyoung Ko

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Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a projection device that projects images onto surfaces and detects interactions with the images on the surfaces. For example, the projection device can include a projector that can project images onto a surface, a camera that can capture imagery of user interactions with the images on the surface, and a processing system (e.g., that includes one or more machine-learned models) that can process the imagery to understand the user interactions, thereby receiving user input. The images projected onto the surface can include still images, moving images, or a user interface that includes …

Robotic Game Playing Internet Of Things Device, Melissa Daniels, George Bacon

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Generally, the present disclosure is directed to a robotic device that can play certain games with a user, such as, for example, interactive hand-gesture-based games such as rock-paper-scissors, gesture matching, and/or gesture mirroring. In particular, in some implementations, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can include or otherwise leverage an Internet of Things (IoT) system or device to control a robotic hand based on inputs from a camera that are processed by a machine-learned model such as a gesture recognition model.

Gesture-To-Speak, Minghung Hsieh

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This document describes an easy-to-use communication system that converts a received gesture into audible, spoken words and phrases. The communication system includes a mobile device having a gesture-to-speak manager application that associates gestures received through an interface of the mobile device to audio files containing pre-recorded phrases. The gesture-to-speak manager application directs the mobile device to play the audio files, as associated to the received gestures, through an audio output of the mobile device.

Restricting Access To Files By Application Programs, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers

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This disclosure describes techniques to enable users to restrict private data from display. Such private data can include images, videos, documents, and other files, by a user device. Private files can be manually or automatically designated, and the content of these files is hidden from user interfaces provided by application programs. Automatic designation is performed using user-permitted techniques for automatic analysis of files. Further, a variety of settings allow the user to control access to private data for display by designated application programs. Such features restrict another user that is viewing a device screen from viewing private data. Described techniques …

Lightweight Approximations For Division, Exponentiation, And Logarithm, Munenori Oizumi

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This disclosure describes low-complexity techniques for approximate division, approximate exponentiation, and approximate logarithm that are accurate to nearly ten percent. Per the techniques, division, exponentiation, and logarithm are expressed in terms of bit-shift and addition operations, which are low-complexity operations. Division, exponentiation and logarithm operations occur frequently in computer science, e.g., in image processing filters, etc. The techniques serve to speed up computations and to reduce silicon area footprint in such compute-intensive applications.

Automatic Detection Of Fake Wi-Fi Access Points, Ning Zhang, Shi Lu

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An evil twin access point is an illegitimate access point that masquerades as a legitimate access point and tricks users into connecting to it. Malicious actors use evil twin access points to steal account names, passwords, and other private information of unsuspecting users. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically detect and avoid evil twin access points.

Training A Machine-Learning Based Object Detector For Use In Photography, Ruiduo Yang, Marc Levoy

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Cameras and other photography systems include the capability to detect objects of interest. Object detectors trained using sample data have a classification loss, e.g., due to insufficient training owing to a finite number of negative samples used during training. An increase in complexity of the object detector increases running time which necessitates a tradeoff between recall, precision, and speed. A common approach is to minimize the average loss across the entire training database. This disclosure proposes a new framework that takes the final image quality into account while training an object detector, by using a modified loss calculation function for …

Extension Of Public Warning System, Tim Lin, Aaron Lee

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This disclosure describes techniques to relay public warning system (PWS) messages from a host device to user devices that cannot receive broadcast messages from a cellular network. A PWS message broadcast by a cellular network is received by the host device and relayed to user devices within a personal area network (PAN). Fields from the incoming PWS message are compared to previously received PWS messages to avoid duplication of messages. Relay of the PWS message by the router enables reception of the PWS message by user devices in the PAN that are not connected to the cellular network. User configurable …

Method Of Selecting An Optimal Set Of Citizens Broadband Service Devices (Cbsds), Evan Tyra, Naveen Kalla, Sooraj Sasindran, Radhika Agrawal

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This publication describes an algorithm that enables a user equipment (UE) to use scattered citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) networks while reducing the need for the UE to continuously scan for CBRS coverage and limiting stored data for the numerous citizens broadband radio service devices (CBSDs). The algorithm allows the UE to decrease battery use and optimize the UE’s use of its memory resources.

Turning Static Media Streams Into Interactive Experiences, Tiruvilwamalai Raman

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Media such as podcasts or other audio, videos, etc. are linear content streams, e.g., the only navigation generally available to users is the ability to rewind or fast-forward along the time axis. This is in contrast to documents on the visual web, where hypertext languages enable flexible and interactive navigation. This disclosure describes techniques to create lightweight annotations around media content to enable an interactive user experience over such content.

Display Orientation User Experience (Ux) Enhancement Through A Sensor Array, Chilin Kuo, Chin-Kuo Huang

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This publication describes a computing device that captures a user-initiated sound by incorporating a microphone array. The computing device analyzes the captured sound from each microphone by using a model capable of determining a variation in the sound power of the captured sound signal by each microphone. To conserve the resources of the computing device, machine learning trains the model remotely or off-line. The ability of the computing device to determine the user-initiated sound power variation captured by each microphone enables the device to determine the location of the user in respect to the device and, thus, allows the device …

Visual User Interface (Ui) Interaction Prediction, Victor Carbune, Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers

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This publication describes an operating system (OS) level framework functionality, which can predict a user’s future interaction with first-party and third-party application software. This provides the user with an enhanced user experience (UX) by enabling first-party and third-party software to dynamically change the display in the user interface (UI) to aid the user to more-easily carry out the task at hand. The framework functionality at the OS level predicts the user’s future interactions using machine learning (ML). With this prediction, the supported application software can dynamically change the UI by presenting the user with relevant application software functions in a …

Enhanced Dying Gasp In Network Nodes For Intuitive Monitoring Of Complex Networks, Karthik Babu Harichandra Babu, Manigandan B, Ananthakrishnan Rajamani

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Techniques are provided herein for fixing existing Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Dying Gasp (DG) mechanisms and providing guaranteed delivery of the DG packet to the remote/peer node.

Meeting-Aware Presentation Of A Home Screen User Interface For A Cloud-Based Content Management Platform, Ashish Duggal

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A mechanism is proposed for intelligently presenting a home screen UI of a CBCM platform based on scheduled meetings. The method includes receiving a request to provide a home screen of the CBCM platform. The method also includes determining attributes of one more meetings scheduled in close proximity to receiving the request. Further, the method includes determining whether the request is associated with a meeting based on attributes of the meeting. The method furthermore includes, responsive to determining that the request is associated with the meeting, determining a type of the meeting based on the attributes of the meeting. The …

Targeted Artificial Personality Matching, Anonymous

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The present disclosure describes a system for building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant that mimics personalities of friends on a social media platform. A ranking module generates a ranked list of the friends based on a user’s frequency of communication with them. A data input module collects images and associated text posted by top-three friends from the ranked list of friends. A feature extractor extracts features of the images and the associated text provided by the data input module. A machine learning module is trained with sample images and their associated text posted by the users with known personality traits …

Adaptive Cable Bandwidth Optimization With Deep Convolution Neural Network, Daoyuan Zhang, Darren Orloff, Rajesh Shetty

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Techniques are described herein to determine the optimal modulation of a channel in real time. Cable bandwidth usage is improved using a state-of-art deep convolutional neural network.

Location, Time, And Preference-Aware Multi-User Scheduling, William Li, Sophia Yang

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This disclosure describes techniques to determine an optimal point-of-interest for multiple users to visit together. The optimality criteria include various user preferences, schedules, and routines, that are obtained and used with user permission. A point of interest can include a location of entertainment, business or leisure, e.g., a restaurant, a movie, an event, or other outing.

Optimization Of A Screw, Verena Schwaiger

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Processing Of Hybrid Endless Fiber Reinforced Tapes, Verena Schwaiger

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Automatic Horizontal Position Measurement Of Components, Verena Schwaiger

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Device For Stowing Away An Actuating Device - Redundant Control, Verena Schwaiger

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Predictive Detection Of Cooling Water Loss In Hv Vehicles, Verena Schwaiger

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Foldable Shelf From Glove Compartment, Verena Schwaiger

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Car Vacuuming Under The Autonomous Driving, Verena Schwaiger

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Integrated Security-Tagging For Deterministic Ethernet, Maik Seewald, Robert Barton

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Techniques are described herein for enhancing Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) in network fabrics by dynamically assigning Secure Group Tags (SGTs) based on the stream configuration in a TSN controller. The TSN controller communicates stream details to a policy engine which creates a policy and assigns an SGT for the stream. The TSN controller pushes regular stream scheduling to the network switches, but also pushes a function that maps the stream identification based on the multicast Media Access Control (MAC) to a specific SGT. The TSN stream is now protected by the correct SGTs end-to-end.

Deterministic Process Networks Based On Adaptive Traffic Policing And Filtering, Maik Seewald, Robert Barton

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Techniques are described herein to facilitate deterministic networking based on Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Substation Automation Networks (SANs). The use of adaptive configuration of filtering and policing for TSN-streams allows the implementation and operation of a secure converged process bus architecture and supports the approach of a fully digital substation.

Connected Grid Mesh Deployment With Multiple Virtual Bridges, Xiaopu Zhang, Yuping Wang, Dapeng Zhu, Zhanwu Wang

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Techniques are described herein for a Virtual Connected Grid Module (VCGM) which can be used in a Connected Grid Mesh (CG-Mesh) deployment so as to meet smart Terminal Transformer Unit (TTU) requirements. This can balance cost and complexity very well.

Cross-Dataset Malicious Actors Identification, Jan Jusko, Danila Khikhlukha

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Techniques are described herein for convicting malicious actors across datasets of different origins. The algorithm allows correlation of the available ground truth knowledge from one dataset with observations in another dataset. In the network/endpoint security field this algorithm allows for conviction of malicious network traffic and identification of Command and Control infrastructure of newly detected malware, even if no direct communication between binaries and domains is observed.

Laptop With Palm Rest Touch Sense Projector For Note Taking, Hp Inc

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A laptop design with an integrated projector at palm rest area is proposed. The projector will be hidden

inside the laptop chassis, a mirror can be triggered to pop up and reflect the content from projector to

the laptop palm rest area or desk surface. Coupled with a camera, and using image recognizing

capabilities of the computer, the palm rest or desk surface will work like a touch screen, user will be able

to write on the palm rest for quick note taking.

Aside from note taking, the projector can also work as a second screen of the laptop, showing …

A Design Of 2nd Display For Enhanced Privacy And 3d Interaction, Hp Inc

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We hereby propose a Design of 2nd Display for Enhanced Privacy and 3D Interaction, for

notebook/tablet and standalone displays, with:

• A 2nd display above the main screen to show content separately

• The 2nd screen is a privacy screen, with narrower than normal viewing angles and can be

activated to show content in privacy mode

• The camera arrays at the top left corner and top right corner of the display for

• optimized 3D image construction and interaction

• maximum range of detection of uninvited peeking beside or behind the direct user

• The camera arrays can include …