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| 8185651 | Multi-segment network application monitoring and correlation architecture A system, method and computer program product are provided for network and network application monitoring. Accordingly, one or more media modules are each coupled to an associated network segment. In the case of network application monitoring, each media module is c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185543 | Video image-based querying for video content An information retrieval system is provided for processing queries for video content. A server receives a query for video content and returns video articles, as received from broadcast systems or other content providers. Queries are formulated using text, video imag... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185395 | Information transmission device An information transmission device which analyzes a diction of a speaker and provides an utterance in accordance with the diction of the speaker, and which has a microphone detecting a sound signal of the speaker, a feature extraction unit extracting at least one fe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185382 | Unified treatment of resolved and unresolved harmonics One embodiment of the present invention provides a post-processing method of a modulation envelope resulting from an interference of two harmonics in a filter band. According to one embodiment, the method comprising filtering the modulation envelope with a band-pass... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185237 | Dispense verification meters A dispense verification meter for measuring and verifying dispense operations (e.g., actual dispensed volumes) of media dispense systems. The dispense verification meter preferably automatically corrects zero offset drift, preferably samples the flow rate of media b... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184953 | Selection of hash lookup keys for efficient retrieval Videos are received and indexed based on fingerprints generated for the videos, using lookup keys which correspond to sub portions of the reference fingerprints. Specifically, a set of lookup keys is selected such that the number of reference fingerprints such that ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184914 | Method and system of person identification by facial image A method to recognize a facial image is described. An input facial image is normalized by scaling and rotation angle using methods of eye pupil centers detection. The input facial image is further normalized by lighting intensity. Template images are obtained either... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184762 | Digital phase lock loop with multi-phase master clock A digital phase lock loop circuit provides an output with reduced jitter. The digital phase lock loop circuit includes a phase frequency detector that determines a phase difference between a feedback signal and a reference frequency signal to generate an error signa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183917 | RF power amplifier circuit with mismatch tolerance A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier system adjusts the supply voltage provided to a power amplifier (PA) adaptively, responsive to the measured or estimated power of the RF output signal of the PA. The RF PA system includes a power amplifier (PA) which receives a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183362 | Method and medicament for inhibiting the expression of a given gene The invention relates to an isolated RNA that mediates RNA interference of an mRNA to which it corresponds and a method of mediating RNA interference of mRNA of a gene in a cell or organism using the isolated RNA. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183027 | Methods and compositions for the recombinant biosynthesis of N-Alkanes The present disclosure identifies methods and compositions for modifying photoautotrophic organisms as hosts, such that the organisms efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into n-alkanes, and in particular the use of such organisms for the commercial producti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181764 | Media deposit apparatus and method for controlling the same Provided is a media deposit apparatus including: a deposit transfer portion providing a deposit circulation path of media deposited via a media deposit portion; a temporary transfer portion providing a temporary circulation path that contacts with the deposit circul... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181197 | System and method for voting on popular video intervals A system and method is provided for identifying popular intervals in online hosted videos. To determine popular intervals associated with a video, a plurality of votes for one or more intervals of the video are collected and organized into a plurality of groups. Eac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181036 | Extrusion detection of obfuscated content Techniques are disclosed that enable extrusion detection (i.e., outgoing confidential information from an enterprise or other entity). The techniques operate to detect outgoing confidential information at the gateway and/or the client, even if that confidential info... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180893 | Component-level sandboxing Component-level sandboxing is implemented in the example context of an enterprise rights management system. A policy enforcement module monitors an application executing on a client to detect and evaluate data access requests in view of a rights policy. The policy e... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180857 | Method for downloading file in parallel Disclosed is the parallel download for a file, which calculates availability values of each block by using node operation rates of each node having blocks constituting a file, and preferentially downloads a block having a minimum availability value among the calcula... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180761 | Referrer context aware target queue prioritization A computer, computer program product, and method prioritize a web crawler target link queue using referrer context information associated with a remote object link. An access statistics collection module detects links to remote objects and retrieves referrer context... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180667 | Rewarding creative use of product placements in user-contributed videos A video hosting service automatically identifies, in a video database, a set of videos associated with an advertiser, and presents the identified videos to the advertiser for consideration. The videos may be selected based on analysis of their video content for imag... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180638 | Method for emotion recognition based on minimum classification error Disclosed herein is a method for emotion recognition based on a minimum classification error. In the method, a speaker's neutral emotion is extracted using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM), other emotions except the neutral emotion are classified using the Gaussian Mi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179994 | Phase error de-glitching circuit and method of operating A system including a phase comparator to compare a first signal and a second signal to generate a phase error signal, and a controller to generate an adjusted phase error signal from the phase error signal in response to an amplitude of at least one of the first sig... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179964 | Efficient transcoding between formats using macroblock buffer Transcoder chip having a buffer for temporarily storing decoded macroblocks and compressed domain parameters. A video decoding module of the transcoding chip decodes and stores the decoded macroblocks in the buffer in a first sequence. The video encoding module then... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179215 | MEMS device with integral packaging A MEMS device and method of making same is disclosed. In one embodiment, a micro-switch includes a base assembly comprising a movable structure bearing a contact pad. The base assembly is wafer-scale bonded to a lid assembly comprising an activator and a signal path... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176554 | Malware detection through symbol whitelisting A security module identifies symbols within an executable file. The security module compares these identified symbols to a set of symbols expected to be present in a legitimate executable file. Based at least in part on an identified symbol not being within the set ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176544 | Network security system having a device profiler communicatively coupled to a traffic monitor A system and method for providing distributed security of a network. Several device profilers are placed at different locations of a network to assess vulnerabilities from different perspectives. The device profiler identifies the hosts on the network, and character... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175985 | Plugin infrastructure for hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) system A system for implementing a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) network using a plugin infrastructure. The plugin infrastructure registers the plugins to be used in instantiating the HTM network. The plugin may include one or more functions for creating one or more c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175984 | Action based learning A set of sequences of sensed input patterns associated with a set of actions is generated by performing at least a first action on data derived from a real-world system. A subset of the sequences of sensed input patterns that form a group associated with the first a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175981 | Methods, architecture, and apparatus for implementing machine intelligence and hierarchical memory systems Sophisticated memory systems and intelligent machines may be constructed by creating an active memory system with a hierarchical architecture. Specifically, a system may comprise a plurality of individual cortical processing units arranged into a hierarchical struct... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175782 | Adaptive driver assistance systems with robust estimation of object properties A computer-implemented system and method for estimating properties of objects represented in digital images, comprising the steps of (a) encoding input data from a sensor in a neural map comprising neurons having numerical activation values, wherein the activation v... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175413 | Video identification through detection of proprietary rights logos in media Proprietary rights logos are detected in a video. The video is divided into a plurality of regions that are analyzed for generic proprietary rights logo features. A confidence mask is generated that comprises a plurality of scaling factors, each scaling factor corre... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175403 | Iterative backward reference selection with reduced entropy for image compression A system (and a method) are disclosed for optimizing lossless data compression in digital images systems iteratively. The system includes a backward reference module and an entropy encoder. The backward reference module comprises three sub-modules: a backward refere... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174705 | Tilting mirror controlled using null-based interferometric sensing A mirror drive mechanism for a tilting mirror is controlled using feedback from one or more interferometric angular sensors. The wavelength of an optical beam is varied as it is fed into an interferometric angular sensor. The wavelength at which the resulting interf... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172407 | Camera-projector duality: multi-projector 3D reconstruction A system and method are disclosed for calibrating a plurality of projectors for three-dimensional scene reconstruction. The system includes a plurality of projectors and at least one camera, a camera-projector calibration module and a projector-projector calibration... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43365 | Apparatus for chemical amplification based on fluid partitioning in an immiscible liquid A system for nucleic acid amplification of a sample comprises partitioning the sample into partitioned sections and performing PCR on the partitioned sections of the sample. Another embodiment of the invention provides a system for nucleic acid amplification and det... | 05/08/2012 |
| D658872 | Shoulder bag | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171128 | Communicating a newsfeed of media content based on a member's interactions in a social network environment A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171020 | Spam detection for user-generated multimedia items based on appearance in popular queries A system, a method, and various software tools enable a video hosting website to automatically identify posted video items that contain spam in the metadata associated with a respective video item. A spam detection tool for user-generated video items based on appear... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170913 | Optimizing placement and delivery of advertisements The efficient allocation of advertisements, also known as creatives, on one or more web sites is provided for while ensuring that guarantees to advertisers are honored. In one embodiment, a linear program solver allocates creatives to advertising slots according to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170287 | Real-time self collision and obstacle avoidance A system, method, and computer program product for avoiding collision of a body segment with unconnected structures in an articulated system are described. A virtual surface is constructed surrounding an actual surface of the body segment. Distances between the body... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169916 | Multi-platform video delivery configuration A system and a method are disclosed for delivering a video to a destination device using multiple sources and multiple protocols. The video can be on demand or a live video. A video is divided into several chunks distributed across devices and servers in the network... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169516 | Electo-optical color imaging systems having strong lateral chromatic aberration compensated by digital image processing A spatially-varying sharpening filter and a color registration module compensate for significant lateral color in poorly corrected optics. In one aspect, a color imaging system includes image-forming optics, a sensor array and a processing module. The processing mod... | 05/01/2012 |
