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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100302199 | FERROMAGNETIC USER INTERFACES Ferromagnetic user interfaces are described. In embodiments, user interface devices are described that can detect the location of movement on a user-touchable portion by sensing movement of a ferromagnetic material. In some embodiments sensors are arranged in a two dime... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20090164762 | OPTIMIZING XOR-BASED CODES A “code optimizer” provides various techniques for optimizing arbitrary XOR-based codes for encoding and/or decoding of data. Further, the optimization techniques enabled by the code optimizer do not depend on any underlining code structure. Therefore, the optimizat... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090164657 | APPLICATION AWARE RATE CONTROL A “communications rate controller” provides various techniques for maximizing a quality of real-time communications (RTC) (including audio and/or video broadcasts and conferencing) over multi-hop networks such as, for example, the Internet. Endpoints in such network... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090110065 | System and method for scalable portrait video Generation, coding and transmission of an effective video form, scalable portrait video. As an expansion to bi-level video, portrait video is composed of more gray levels, and therefore possesses higher visual quality while it maintains a low bit rate and low computatio... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090110007 | SEAMLESS MULTIPLEXING OF EMBEDDED BITSTREAMS A “seamless multiplexer,” as described herein, provides a flexible and efficient system and method for multiplexing embedded coded bitstreams. Further, unlike the conventional JPEG 2000 standard, the seamless multiplexer is capable of decoding multiplexed encoded bi... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090098937 | ADAPTIVE TREE VISUALIZATION FOR TOURNAMENT-STYLE BRACKETS An adaptive tree visualization system and method for adaptively deforming a traditional bracket tree to visualize information about competitors in a linear manner. A one-dimensional result line emanates from the name of each competitor such that the progress of each com... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090080632 | SPATIAL AUDIO CONFERENCING Audio in an audio conference is spatialized using either virtual sound-source positioning or sound-field capture. A spatial audio conference is provided between a local and remote parties using audio conferencing devices (ACDs) interconnected by a network. Each ACD capt... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090062679 | CATEGORIZING PERCEPTUAL STIMULI BY DETECTING SUBCONCIOUS RESPONSES A perceptual stimulus categorization technique is presented which identifies the stimuli category of a perceptual stimulus that has been presented to a person whose brain activity is being monitored. This generally accomplished by first training a detection module to re... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090055377 | Collaborative Media Recommendation and Sharing Technique A media recommendation and sharing technique that employs agents on media players/devices to expand the scope of media sharing scenarios. The technique assists a user in discovering media items, such as, for example, music, recordings, play lists, pictures, video games,... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20090046139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED MEETINGS A system and method for teleconferencing and recording of meetings. The system uses a variety of capture devices (a novel 360° camera, a whiteboard camera, a presenter view camera, a remote view camera, and a microphone array) to provide a rich experience for people wh... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090041375 | VIEWING WIDE ANGLE IMAGES USING DYNAMIC TONE MAPPING A dynamic tone mapping technique is presented that produces a local tone map for a sub-image of a wide-angle, high dynamic range (HDR), which is used in rendering the sub-image for display. The technique generally involves first computing a global tone map of the wide-a... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090030767 | SCHEDULING AND IMPROVING ERGONOMIC BREAKS USING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION An ergonomic break system and method for scheduling and improving an ergonomic break for a user from a computing device. The system and method schedule the break based on environmental information to minimize annoyance to the user. Environmental information includes the... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090022421 | GENERATING GIGAPIXEL IMAGES A gigapixel image is generated from a set of images in raw format depicting different portions of a panoramic scene that has up to a full spherical field of view. Radiometric alignment of the images creates a set of images in radiance format. Geometric alignment of the ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090024952 | CONTROL AND VISIBILITY FOR DIGITAL CALENDAR SHARING A digital calendar sharing control and visibility system and method for providing a user with control and visibility of digital calendar sharing. The system and method enhance and improve the sharing capabilities of current digital calendar applications. The system and ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090018985 | HISTOGRAM-BASED CLASSIFIERS HAVING VARIABLE BIN SIZES A “Classifier Trainer” trains a combination classifier for detecting specific objects in signals (e.g., faces in images, words in speech, patterns in signals, etc.). In one embodiment “multiple instance pruning” (MIP) is introduced for training weak classifiers ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090018981 | LEARNING CLASSIFIERS USING COMBINED BOOSTING AND WEIGHT TRIMMING A “Classifier Trainer” trains a combination classifier for detecting specific objects in signals (e.g., faces in images, words in speech, patterns in signals, etc.). In one embodiment “multiple instance pruning” (MIP) is introduced for training weak classifiers ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090018980 | MULTIPLE-INSTANCE PRUNING FOR LEARNING EFFICIENT CASCADE DETECTORS A “Classifier Trainer” trains a combination classifier for detecting specific objects in signals (e.g., faces in images, words in speech, patterns in signals, etc.). In one embodiment “multiple instance pruning” (MIP) is introduced for training weak classifiers ... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090006324 | MULTIPLE MONITOR/MULTIPLE PARTY SEARCHES A technique for the creation of synthesized results from multi-query, multi-party and multi-monitor searches to provide more relevant information to the user in a more useful format and to discard or reduce in relevancy information that is not so useful. It also provide... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090006972 | COLLABORATIVE PHONE-BASED FILE EXCHANGE A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration wi... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090006358 | SEARCH RESULTS A technique for the creation of synthesized results from multi-query searches to provide more relevant information to the user in a more useful format and to discard or reduce in relevancy information that is not so useful. It can determine which queries belong to the s... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080319976 | IDENTIFICATION AND USE OF WEB SEARCHER EXPERTISE A search expertise level system and method for determining a search expertise level of a search engine user and then using that information to improve the searcher's experience. The search expertise level system and method identifies the search expertise level of the se... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080317371 | VIDEO NOISE REDUCTION A video noise reduction technique is presented. Generally, the technique involves first decomposing each frame of the video into low-pass and high-pass frequency components. Then, for each frame of the video after the first frame, an estimate of a noise variance in the ... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080319975 | Exploratory Search Technique A technique for the creation of synthesized results from multi-query searches to provide more relevant information to the user in a more useful format and to discard or reduce in relevancy information that is not so useful. It allows a user to define the boundaries of t... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080319944 | USER INTERFACES TO PERFORM MULTIPLE QUERY SEARCHES User interfaces for conducting multi-query searches. These user interfaces also provide specific mechanisms for supporting multi-query searches including: saving/restoring search context; search-specific query history; a “keepers” bin for storing useful results; eli... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080309676 | RANDOM-ACCESS VECTOR GRAPHICS A “Vector Graphics Encoder” encodes vector graphics in a randomly accessible format. This encoding format enables particular portions of encoded images to be directly accessed, at any desired level of zoom, without processing or otherwise decoding the entire image. ... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080313241 | DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE USING ERASURE RESILIENT CODING An erasure resilient coding (ERC) distributed data storage system and method for storing data in a reliable and survivable fashion while minimizing hardware and associated costs. The system and method includes forming multiple protection groups both within and across st... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080310328 | CLIENT-SIDE ECHO CANCELLATION FOR MULTI-PARTY AUDIO CONFERENCING A “Client-Side Echo Canceller” provides a unique system and method for reducing Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) computational overhead in a multi-point audio conference. In general, the local audio input signal of each client is transmitted in real-time to the MCU. Th... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080313713 | AUDIO START SERVICE FOR AD-HOC MEETINGS An audio start service method for enabling and scheduling ad hoc distributed meetings. Only a short (in some embodiments less than or equal to about 32 bits) unique device identification is needed to enable distributed meeting devices participating in the meeting to ren... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080298706 | FOCAL LENGTH ESTIMATION FOR PANORAMIC STITCHING A focal length estimation technique is presented that estimates the focal length used to capture each of a pair of overlapping images taken by a camera rotating about its center. When it is known that the focal length is the same for both images, it is estimated using j... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080301133 | LOCATION RECOGNITION USING INFORMATIVE FEATURE VOCABULARY TREES A location recognition technique that involves using a query image to identify a depicted location is presented. In addition to the query image, there is also a pre-constructed database of features which are associated with images of known locations. The technique match... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080301214 | ISP-AWARE PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT EXCHANGE An Internet Service Provider (ISP)-aware peer-to-peer (P2P) content exchange system and method for exchanging content over a P2P network using the Internet. The system and method accounts for the type of relationship between peers and classifies and groups each peer acc... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080298678 | CHROMATIC ABERRATION CORRECTION A chromatic aberration (CA) correction technique is presented that substantially removes CA from an image captured by a digital camera. In general, the effects of any in-camera sharpening are reversed by applying a blurring kernel. The image is then super-sampled to app... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080298712 | IMAGE SHARPENING WITH HALO SUPPRESSION An image sharpening technique with halo suppression is presented. Generally, one implementation of this technique completely suppresses the haloing effect typically caused by image sharpening by restricting values to within the local minimum and maximum intensities of t... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080291203 | Layered Graph Layouts with a Given Aspect Ratio A graph layout technique that creates a layered graph layout with a given aspect ratio. The present layered graph layout technique better utilizes the available space and, at the same time, creates an aesthetically pleasing drawing of a directed graph. In one embodiment... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080295005 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DOCUMENT LAYOUT VIA MANIFOLD CONTENT A user interface for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images,... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080288219 | SENSOR ARRAY BEAMFORMER POST-PROCESSOR A novel beamforming post-processor technique with enhanced noise suppression capability. The present beam forming post-processor technique is a non-linear post-processing technique for sensor arrays (e.g., microphone arrays) which improves the directivity and signal sep... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080279423 | RECOVERING PARAMETERS FROM A SUB-OPTIMAL IMAGE A subregion-based image parameter recovery system and method for recovering image parameters from a single image containing a face taken under sub-optimal illumination conditions. The recovered image parameters (including albedo, illumination, and face geometry) can be ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080281586 | REAL-TIME DETECTION AND PRESERVATION OF SPEECH ONSET IN A SIGNAL A “speech onset detector” provides a variable length frame buffer in combination with either variable transmission rate or temporal speech compression for buffered signal frames. The variable length buffer buffers frames that are not clearly identified as either spe... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080267494 | JOINT BILATERAL UPSAMPLING A “Joint Bilateral Upsampler” uses a high-resolution input signal to guide the interpolation of a low-resolution solution set (derived from a downsampled version of the input signal) from low-to high-resolution. The resulting high-resolution solution set is then sav... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080267473 | MEDICAL IMAGE ACQUISITION ERROR DETECTION A medical image acquisition error detection technique is presented which exploits the special characteristics of medical images to detect possible errors. In general, the presented technique categorizes medical images based on the type of images. For each category, a ty... | 10/30/2008 |
