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1. A method, in a data processing system, for controlling a fidelity of a simulation of a system, comprising: receiving a model of the system, wherein the model of the system comprises a plurality of individual components of the system; assigning fidelity values to models of the individual components of the system; executing a simulation of the system using the model of the system and the models of the individual components of the system; maintaining a history of mismatches between fidelity values of the models of the individual components and required fidelity values of the models of the individual components; predicting a fidelity value to be assigned to a component based on the history of mismatches; and adjusting a fidelity value of the component based on results of predicting the fidelity value to be assigned to the component.
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1. A method of processing digital broadcast data, the method comprising: demodulating a digital television (DTV) signal containing first service data multiplexed with second service data; decoding the demodulated DTV signal for first error correction by performing a first error correction function in order to correct errors in the first and second service data that occurred during reception of the DTV signal; extracting the first service data from the decoded DTV signal and removing MPEG headers included in the first service data; and decoding the header-removed first service data for second error correction by performing a second error correction function in order to additionally correct errors in the first service data that occurred during the reception of the DTV signal, wherein the first and second error correction functions are different from each other.
20030144824
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1. A method of simulating a circuit, the method comprising: defining a differential-algebraic equation of the circuit; defining a simulation time interval corresponding to the differential-algebraic equation; dividing the simulation time interval into time intervals, wherein the time intervals have corresponding polynomials for each time interval, wherein each polynomial is a portion of an approximation to a desired solution of the differential-algebraic equation; and applying a collocation method to discretize the differential-algebraic equation.
20060184515
11265800
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1. A method for performing a category search to identify categories of items that relate to a search term, the method comprising: receiving at least one search term that includes at least one search term word; comparing the search term word with one or more words in a hierarchy of category identifiers to determine whether matches exist; identifying at least one matching category identifier based on the matches that are determined to exist between the search term word and the words of the hierarchy of category identifiers; accessing searchable terms related to each of several categories, where the searchable terms related to each of the several categories include names and descriptions of web sites within a corresponding category; comparing the search term word with the searchable terms related to one or more categories to determine whether matches exist; identifying at least one matching category identifier based on the matches that are determined to exist between the search term word and the searchable terms related to the categories; displaying the at least one matching category identifier; and when more than one matching category identifier is identified and displayed: determining a relative ranking among categories corresponding to the matching category identifiers based on one or more of a relative location of the matches within the hierarchy of category identifiers, and whether the matches occur with the searchable terms related to one or more categories or with the hierarchy of category identifiers, and presenting the matching category identifiers with an indication of the corresponding relative rank.
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1. A system of detecting granular data store changes in a computing environment, comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor; the system further comprising: means for changing one or more data values of a plurality of data values stored in a first relational database including a first plurality of rows and a first plurality of columns, wherein said one or more data values includes a data value included in a row of said first plurality of rows and in a column of said first plurality of columns; means for identifying one or more rows of said first plurality of rows, said one or more rows identified as including said one or more data values changed via said changing; means for propagating said one or more rows to a second relational database including a second plurality of rows and a second plurality of columns, wherein said means for propagating said one or more rows includes means for propagating said row to a target row of said second relational database, wherein said second plurality of columns includes a first set of columns and a second set of columns, wherein a first result of said propagating said row is that said first set of columns includes a first set of data values included in said target row, wherein said first set of data values includes said data value, wherein a second result of said propagating said row is that said second set of columns includes a set of timestamps associated with data values of said first set of data values in a one-to-one correspondence, wherein each timestamp of said set of timestamps indicates a time of an insertion of a corresponding data value of said first set of data values or a time of an update of a corresponding data value of said first set of data values, wherein a column of said second set of columns includes a timestamp of said set of timestamps that indicates a time of an insertion of said data value into said second relational database prior to said changing; means for updating said timestamp to a time of an update of said data value, wherein said update is a result of said changing; means for transforming at least one data value of said one or more data values included in said one or more columns into packaged data expressed in a language neutral format, wherein said at least one data value includes said update of said data value; means for detecting, subsequent to said updating said timestamp, that said timestamp is different from any other timestamp of said set of timestamps; and means for inserting an indicator of said update into said packaged data in response to said detecting that said timestamp is different from any other timestamp of said set of timestamps.
20020154798
09792013
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1. A method of identifying boundaries of biological cells, the method comprising: receiving a first image of a field of one or more cells in which a reference cell component of the one or more cells is identified by a reference cell component marker image parameter; receiving a second image of the field of one or more cells in which at least one of a cell shape-indicative marker of the one or more cells is identified by a cell shape-indicative marker image parameter; and processing the first image in conjunction with the second image such that individual cell boundaries for the one or more cells in the field are identified.
20140245121
13781721
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising: generating, using one or more computing devices, a table from form images, the table including image data and symbolic data; receiving, using the one or more computing devices, at least one operation for modifying a first view of a collection from a first user; creating, using the one or more computing devices, at least one state based on the at least one operation; creating, using the one or more computing devices, a second view of the collection based on the state; and providing the second view of the collection to the first user.
20080213745
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1. A method of determining whether a subject has been exposed to a hepatotoxicant, the method comprising: analyzing a biological sample from a subject to determine the level(s) of one or more biomarkers for hepatotoxicity selected from the one or more biomarkers listed in Table 1 and combinations thereof; and comparing the level(s) of the one or more biomarkers in the sample to levels of the one or more biomarkers from a control sample exposed to hepatotoxicant; and determining whether the subject has been exposed to hepatotoxicant.
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1. An object tracker comprising: a tracking processing unit operative to perform a tracking process of a target object, based on an estimated existence probability distribution of a target object in a first image frame, by defining the candidate contour of a target object in a second image frame, observing the likelihood of the candidate contour by matching against an edge image of the second image frame, and estimating the existence probability distribution of the target object in the second frame, the first image frame and the second image frame forming a moving image in which the target object to be tracked is captured; a target object area detection unit operative to detect the area of the target object in the first image frame by a predetermined analysis method and acquire a predetermined feature amount representing the area; an initial contour estimation unit operative to obtain the estimated existence probability distribution of the target object in the first image frame by temporarily setting at least any one of the values of parameters the tracking processing unit uses for a tracking process and estimate the contour of the target object based on the estimated existence probability distribution; and an initial value determination unit operative to compare the feature amount of the area of the target object based on the contour estimated by the initial contour estimation unit and the feature amount acquired by the target object area detection unit and, when the result of the comparison satisfies a predetermined condition, allows the tracking processing unit to start a tracking process by applying the value of the parameter temporarily set by the initial contour estimation unit.
20080218861
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1. A zoom lens capable of image stabilization comprising: in order from an object side of the zoom lens: a first lens group having a positive refractive power, the first lens group being fixed when the zoom lens varies a magnification thereof, a second lens group having a negative refractive power and being capable of varying a magnification of the zoom lens; a stop; a third lens group having a positive refractive power, the third lens group being fixed when the zoom lens varies a magnification thereof; and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, being capable of correcting an image plane variation when the zoom lens varies a magnification thereof, and being capable of focusing the zoom lens, wherein the third lens group includes a 3a-th lens group having a positive refractive power, a 3b-th lens group having a negative refractive power, and a 3c-th lens group having a positive refractive power in this order from the object side, the 3b-th lens group is adapted to be movable in a direction approximately orthogonal to an optical axis thereof so as to correct blurring of a taken image which is caused by a vibration of the zoom lens, and the zoom lens satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2): 8 <f 3 /fw <26   (1) 0.55<|(φ3 a +φ3 c )/(2×φ3 b )|<0.95   (2) wherein fw represents a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, f3 represents a focal length of the third lens group, φ3a represents a refractive power of the 3a-th lens group, which is a reciprocal of a focal length of the 3a-th lens group, φ3b represents a refractive power of the 3b-th lens group, which is reciprocal of a focal length of the 3b-th lens group, and φ3c represents a refractive power of the 3c-th lens group, which is reciprocal of a focal length of the 3c-th lens group.
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1. A computer-implemented method for predicting the impact of security-policy changes on users, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying at least one end-user computing system that is potentially to be regulated using a new security policy potentially to be activated by an administrator of the end-user computing system; predicting, prior to activating the new security policy on the end-user computing system, how activating the new security policy will impact at least one user of the end-user computing system by: deploying the new security policy to the end-user computing system; monitoring, over a time period of live user activity on the end-user computing system, at least one behavior of the user on the end-user computing system for evaluation against the new security policy responsive to determining that the new security policy is potentially to be activated; determining, without notifying the user of the new security policy and without having first activated the new security policy, how activating the new security policy on the end-user computing system would have impacted the behavior by: detecting, at the end-user computing system, a condition that would have triggered enforcement of the new security policy on the end-user computing system; determining that the behavior comprised the condition, caused the condition, and/or occurred simultaneously with the condition; determining, in response to detecting the condition that would have triggered enforcement of the new security policy, that enforcement of the new security policy on the end-user computing system would have impacted the behavior; notifying, based at least in part on predicting how activating the new security policy will impact the user, the administrator of the end-user computing system with information that indicates how activating the new security policy will impact future user behavior.
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1. A device comprising a transmitter and at least one receiver: the transmitter configured for at least one of obtaining and determining data elements from one or more sources, the data elements representing measurements or other information associated with one or more entities, and by means of data compression and encoding, representing an ensemble of the data elements as a set of messages that are transmitted via one or more suitable transmission media, and the receiver configured for receiving, decoding, and decompressing messages created by the transmitter so as to reconstitute data elements contained within the messages, and further configured for deriving and evaluating the measurements or other information represented by the reconstituted data elements, such that a composite size of the messages is significantly smaller than a composite size of a set of messages representing the same data elements in an uncompressed form, and the transmitter being configured for controlling an achievable fidelity of reconstitution of the data elements, by the receiver, by means of an alteration of one or more parameters in the data compression and encoding, and the transmitter being configured for adaptation of compression and/or encoding parameters in response to changing requirements, situations, or data, and the transmitter and receiver being configured for accommodation of one or more anomalous data elements that cannot be represented by the encoding, such anomalous elements being identified by means of signals encoded in the messages.
20040188513
10812219
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1. A system for evaluating the condition of an item, the system comprising the components of: a sensor chamber including an interior area for housing an evaluation item, the interior area including a plurality of sensors; a controller that is communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and operative to control the operation of the plurality of sensors and obtain data readings from the plurality of sensors; an information acquisition engine operable to receive information regarding the evaluation item; a database containing expected results pertaining to the evaluation item; and a damage calculator that is operable to compare the data readings from the plurality of sensors and the expected results from the database to identify particular characteristics pertaining to the evaluation item.
8239139
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1. A method of employing multimodal spectroscopy to classify tissue comprising the steps of: illuminating a biological tissue sample to produce a measurable spectroscopic event; collecting spectroscopic response data from the spectroscopic event, wherein the response data includes measurements derived from fluorescence and reflectance signals, including reflectance spectra, fluorescence spectra and time-resolved fluorescence decay measurements associated with the tissue sample; comparing the response data with preset criteria relating the collected response data with one or more attributes of the tissue sample, wherein each attribute is at least partially indicative of a tissue classification; determining whether preset criteria are satisfied by the collected data; and classifying the tissue sample according to the one or more attributes identified by the preset criteria satisfied.
7646327
12182910
1
1. A method for detecting motion comprising: providing an original complex SAR image, the SAR image having a target object; defining a regional subset of the original complex SAR image; performing coarse range cell alignment on said regional subset; autofocusing said regional subset to produce an estimated phase error function; analyzing the amplitude and frequency of said generated estimated phase error function; detecting motion of said target object based on said analysis.
20080168044
11651380
0
1. An application monitoring method comprising: capturing raw performance data from one or more components of an application; converting the raw performance data of the one or more components to data records having a standard event data format; determining summary data for the one or more components based on the data records; and presenting the summary data to an end user.
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1. A compliance system for electronic trading of tradable assets, said system comprising: a remote compliance services server configured: (a) to perform, in response to a compliance check request from a trade desktop terminal, a compliance check of a proposed trade order wherein performing the compliance check comprises: determining whether the proposed trade order complies with trading rules of an account associated with the proposed trade order, and transmitting a response message to the trade desktop terminal indicating whether the proposed trade order complies with the trading rules, and (b) to provide a package of compliance verification data to the trade desktop terminal for local compliance verification, wherein the providing comprises: identifying securities that cannot be traded in accordance with the trading rules, generating the package of compliance verification data such that the package includes a list of securities that cannot be traded in accordance with the trading rules, and transmitting the package of compliance verification data to the trade desktop terminal via an electronic data network; a local compliance checking module configured to operate on the trade desktop terminal, wherein the compliance checking module is configured to: receive the package of compliance verification data from the remote compliance services server over the electronic data network, store the package of compliance verification data locally, determine whether a compliance check can be performed for the proposed order based on the locally stored package of compliance verification data, and if the compliance check can be performed locally, to perform the compliance check locally based on the locally stored package of compliance verification data, and if not, to request a compliance check for the proposed trade order from the remote compliance services server.
8843859
13649962
1
1. A computer implemented method comprising: identifying a layout design for a mask and a partition distance; forming a planar grid based upon the partition distance; overlaying the planar grid onto the layout design to define a plurality of layout sections; consolidating the plurality of layout sections into a plurality of pattern groups, each pattern group including layout sections having geometric structures or shapes similar to each other relative to a reference point; using a computer system to derive a pattern group printing difficulty factor for one or more of the plurality of pattern groups; selecting one or more of the plurality of layout sections for source mask optimization based in part upon the pattern group printing difficulty factor; and applying a source mask optimization to the one or more selected layout sections.
8055552
11615574
1
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by the computing device, from a consumer, user-defined commerce rule information relating to a user commerce rule, the user-defined commerce rule information comprising a matching attribute and an automatic payment condition, the matching attribute identifying a project channel associated with a creator entity; creating, by the computing device, using the user-defined commerce rule information, a user commerce rule comprising the matching attribute and the automatic payment condition; storing, by the computing device, the created user commerce rule in a network addressable and searchable commerce rule data store; receiving, by the computing device, from the creator entity, work information identifying a work of the creator entity, the information indicating the work is associated with the project channel; matching, by the computing device, the work information to the matching attribute of the created user commerce rule, such that the matching attribute identifying a project channel matches the project channel indicated in the work information; determining, by the computing device, that the automatic payment condition of the created user commerce rule has been satisfied; and automatically purchasing, based on the matching and determining steps by the computing device, from the creator entity, the work of the creator entity for the consumer.
20120185498
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1. A method comprising: generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field; displaying the first suggestions; receiving a selection of one of the first suggestions; replacing the first text input with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions; generating, by the at least one suggestion engine executing on the data processing system, second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field; filtering the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions; and displaying the filtered second selections.
20070288216
11805743
0
1. A simulation system for simulating a function of a biological organ, the simulation system comprising: input means for receiving input of time-series actual measurement data representing biological response of a subject; reference data generating means for estimating the biological response of the subject at a time point at which the measurement is not made by using the input time-series actual measurement data, and generating time-series reference data representing the biological response of the subject; and virtual biological organ generating means for generating a virtual biological organ virtually constructed in a computer system using the times-series reference data, the virtual biological organ corresponding to a function of a biological organ of the subject.
8051040
11869290
1
1. A publication system comprising: one or more processors; a storage module to store, using the one or more processors, first publication data and first demand data, the first publication data describing a first item, and being included in a first publication published by the publication system, and the first demand data including a demand measurement registering a first interaction associated with the first publication data, between a first publication originator and a first publication querier; and a modification module, to access the first publication data and the first demand data from the storage module, to receive second publication data from a second publication originator, the second publication data being proposed publication data describing a second item, the second publication data to be published as a second publication, to generate first modification data recommended to be used to modify a description of the second item of the second publication data, the first modification data being generated based on the first publication data, the first demand data, and the second publication data, and to assign a proportional weight to the first publication and the first demand data, the proportional weight controlling a corresponding level of effect of the first modification data.
20110246093
12752767
0
1. A method for predicting a remaining useful life (RUL) for a component in a set of components within a computer system, wherein the set of components includes a monitored component, the method comprising: collecting values of at least one degradation-related parameter associated with the operation of the monitored component within the computer system, wherein the degradation-related parameter is a direct measurement of a degree of degradation of the monitored component; collecting values of at least one stress-based parameter from the computer system, wherein the stress-based parameter measures an accumulative stress in the operating environment of the set of components which can cause degradation of the set of components; and predicting an RUL for a component in the set of components based at least on the values of the at least one degradation-related parameter and the values of the at least one stress-based parameter.
20100076917
12284976
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1. A method for predicting rare events, comprising: postulating at least one predictor sequence, wherein each predictor sequence includes at least one variable, wherein each variable has a value, wherein each variable has an associated range, wherein the value of each variable falls within the range associated with the respective variable; for each predictor sequence, determining if the predictor sequence has an adequate fitness; if the predictor sequence does not have an adequate fitness, refining the predictor sequence until the predictor sequence has adequate fitness; and predicting the occurrence of a rare event based at least in part on a model, wherein the model is constructed from the at least one predictor sequence having adequate fitness.
20110135034
12962369
0
1. A system, comprising: a digital pre-distortion circuit in a transmission path between a system input and a transmission circuit; a feedback circuit coupled between the output of the transmission circuit and a training module, the feedback circuit providing feedback signal samples from the output of the transmission circuit at a feedback sampling rate that is lower than an input sampling rate used for signals at the system input; and a training circuit coupled to the system input and coupled to an output of the feedback circuit, the training circuit comprising a feedback-model circuit operating to modify the system input signals to match characteristics of the feedback signal samples, the training circuit providing operating parameters to the digital pre-distortion circuit.
20120296961
13483848
0
1. A method comprising: generating, within an application server using one or more processors, a plurality of session objects, the session objects storing session data defining a state of interaction with a respective plurality of clients; defining, within the application server, a plurality Of session domains, each of the session domains providing abstract storage for session objects having similar management characteristics; associating, within the application server, the plurality of session objects with the plurality of session domains, those of the session objects sharing one or more related management characteristics being grouped within a common session domain of the plurality of session domains; identifying related session domains within the plurality of session domains; and organizing, within the application server, the related session domains within one of a plurality of hierarchy levels based on the One or more related management characteristics of the session objects.
20140079210
13623255
0
1. A method, comprising: receiving a first contact in a contact center; creating a first work item as a representation of the first contact in the contact center; establishing a pool of agents within the contact center, each agent in the pool of agents being qualified to process the first work item, wherein the pool of agents being qualified to process the first work item comprises: at least one well-matched agent and at least one less-well-matched agent, wherein the at least one less-well-matched agent is not as well-matched for the first work item because they are not as qualified to process the first work item as at least one other well-matched agent in the contact center, and wherein the at least one other well-matched agent is not available at the first time; and deferring a work assignment decision for the first work item beyond the first time while simultaneously considering a risk of not assigning the first work item to an agent in the pool of agents.
20160203004
14912579
0
1. A method of providing dynamic contextual help to a user; comprising: displaying a contextual help application on a graphical user interface; determining categories of content displayed by the graphical user interface, wherein the categories of content displayed are separate and distinct from the contextual help application; displaying one or more objects in the contextual help application relating to the content displayed by the graphic user interface; and detecting the location of a first indication object over a first object of the one or more objects provided in the contextual help application, wherein a second indication object is simultaneously displayed within the graphical user interface at a location apart from the contextual help application, where instructions relating to a selected object can be performed apart from the contextual help application.
8731844
13105570
1
1. A computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing thereon computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor of a computing device, the computer program instructions defining steps for selecting and optimizing reagent combinations for identification or quantification of molecules in or on cells detectable by an instrument-measurable atom or molecule associated with the reagent combination, comprising: (a) specifying a plurality of markers to be detected by a plurality of reagents; (b) specifying at least one expected level of expression of one or more markers in a plurality of markers expected to be detected on or in each of a plurality of cells; (c) generating a plurality of reagent combinations comprising a plurality of reagents to detect the plurality of markers of step (a), wherein the reagent combinations are ranked according to at least one user-defined or system-defined criterion comprising efficacy of the reagent combination with regard to at least one type of cell; (d) optimizing the reagent combination by determining an effective spectrum matrix of an instrument comprising a plurality of detectors for estimating fluorescence compensation by (1) estimating background autofluorescence by measuring autofluorescence of a set of unstained cells or reagent capture particles with each of the plurality of detectors of the flow cytometer, (2) measuring fluorescence of a set of cells or particle samples labeled singly with each fluorochrome of a plurality of fluorochromes, wherein each fluorochrome of the plurality of fluorochromes is assigned a primary detector of a flow cytometer, and wherein fluorescence data is obtained from each assigned primary detector of each fluorochrome of the plurality of fluorochromes; (3) analyzing the fluorescence data from each assigned primary detector of each fluorochrome of the plurality of fluorochromes of step (b) by estimating the mean and standard deviation of the autofluorescence from the unstained sample in (a) for each detector; and (4) for each single fluorochrome labeled sample and each detector, estimating the standard deviation of each event by scaling errors with the estimates in (d), initially setting background to zero, and fitting a line through the mean of the autofluorescence data for each detector, (5) for each single fluorochrome labeled sample, estimating background signal level from the autofluorescence data; improving the estimate of the standard deviation of each event on the primary detector plus the estimated background; again fitting a line; and estimating the photoelectron sensitivity scaling by resealing all errors to be chi squared distributed with one degree of freedom; (6) for each detector, fitting a least squares line to the remaining data constrained to pass through the mean of the autofluorescence, wherein the slope of the line provides one coefficient in the effective spectrum matrix; and generating final estimates of background, photoelectron scaling, and overall quality of fit by a nonlinear least squares procedure; and (e) providing a rank-ordered list of reagent combinations that fit within fluorescence spectral detection limitations of the instrument and within limitations imposed by treatment of the cells.
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14414542
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1. A filtering setting support device, comprising: an electronic computer device, which includes a processing unit and data storage having stored therein programming code readable by the processing unit, said processing unit, upon executing the programming code, causing the computer device to function as: a logical/physical mapping unit which generates mapping information expressing a path on a configuration of a network from a transmission source node to a destination node for each flow identifier by using a combination of a start node and an end node, based on access policy information which manages flow information composed of a combination of the transmission source node and the destination node included in the network with attaching the flow identifiers and based on physical configuration information of the node included in the network, a filtering point analysis unit which specifies the node in which a plurality of flows are intermingled as a filtering point based on a number of arcs, which is extracted from the mapping information, a common format rule generation unit which generates a common format rule to be set to the filtering point from the flow information including the filtering point, and a common format rule output unit which presents the common format rule to an administrator of the network.
7703001
11178979
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1. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function comprising: from a reading unit that reads a printed material including an image according to a reference image data, a margin, and a handwritten annotation, acquiring input image data indicating a result of reading; comparing the input image data with the reference image data; extracting handwritten annotation data representing the handwritten annotation contained in the input image data based on a result of comparing; discriminating a location of the handwritten annotation within the input image data with respect to predetermined areas within the input image data; classifying the extracted handwritten annotation data according to the location of the handwritten annotation within the input image data with respect to predetermined areas within the input image data, wherein the classifying includes determining whether or not the handwritten annotation according to the extracted handwritten annotation data includes a geometry which points to a specific place in the input image data, and when the geometry is included, the handwritten annotation data is classified as a floating type, and specific place data, which represents position information of the specific place, is generated; classifying the extracted handwritten annotation based on whether the handwritten annotation according to the extracted handwritten annotation data includes a pre-determined geometry that indicates permission or non-permission of disclosure of the handwritten annotation; and displaying the handwritten annotation, when the extracted handwritten annotation data includes the pre-determined geometry that indicates permission of disclosure of the handwritten annotation, according to the handwritten annotation data classified as the floating type on an image according to the reference image data, wherein if the location of the handwritten annotation in the input image data is within the margin, the location of the handwritten annotation according to the extracted handwritten annotation data determined as the floating type is relocated to a position within a display range of the image according to the reference image data, and the handwritten annotation is linked with the specific place according to the specific place data.
20090210369
12032111
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1. A method comprising: training a usefulness prediction model to generate a usefulness prediction in connection with a given universal resource locator (URL), the training of the usefulness prediction model being based on a training set of URLs, a count of negative URLs and a count of positive URLs identified by the training set, and for each feature extracted from the URLs in the training set, a count of the positive URLs in the training set that include the feature and a count of the negative URLs in the training set that include the feature; extracting one or more features of the given URL; and using the one or more features extracted from the given URL and the usefulness prediction model to generate the usefulness prediction in connection with the given URL.
20080264159
11575754
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1. A method of verifying the strength of a vehicle in combination with auxiliary equipment fitted thereto, comprising: specifying a vehicle chassis number of the vehicle to a vehicle database for collecting from the vehicle database a corresponding vehicle specification and its parameters; specifying parameters pertaining to the auxiliary equipment; performing a strength calculation, based on the parameters of the vehicle and the auxiliary equipment, for the vehicle in combination with the auxiliary equipment fitted; adding a reinforcement to the combination of vehicle and auxiliary equipment when a result of the strength calculation lies outside a predefined interval; and performing a new calculation of a strength of the vehicle combination of the vehicle, the auxiliary equipment and the reinforcement.
8296030
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1. A system for controlling an engine of a vehicle, the system comprising: at least one monitoring device mounted on the vehicle that monitors an environment surrounding at least a portion of the vehicle; a controller in electronic communication with the at least one monitoring device; and a computer readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to: determine a current driving path of the vehicle based on data received from the at least one monitoring device, detect traffic congestion ahead of the vehicle in the current driving path based on data received from the at least one monitoring device, determine whether an alternative driving path of the vehicle exists based on data received from the at least one monitoring device, determine, when there is traffic congestion and no alternative driving path exists, that the vehicle will come to a complete stop behind the traffic congestion, determine whether brakes of the vehicle should be applied throughout a deceleration until the vehicle reaches the complete stop behind the traffic congestion, determine a moving pattern of the traffic congestion based at least in part on information regarding traffic signals and traffic signs, calculate, using a first statistical model, a first probability that the traffic congestion will not move within a defined time period, and stop the engine before the vehicle comes to the complete stop when the first probability is greater than a first threshold and when no alternative driving path exists.
7573405
11964890
1
1. A system, comprising: A. a memory configured to contain initialized accumulated statistics coding variable values; and B. a processor configured: i. to employ said initialized accumulated statistics coding variable values to context-adaptive encode multiple symbols until an accumulated statistics update condition occurs, and ii. to update and store said accumulated statistics coding variable values in said memory only upon occurrence of said accumulated statistics update condition.
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1. An image processor, which outputs a result of an estimation of a hidden state of an estimation subject from an observable state in an image in a manner of a time series, wherein: the observable state is observed from the hidden state of the estimation subject under a procedure that has a hierarchical structure, wherein: the hierarchical structure includes: the hidden state of the estimation subject; the observable state; and an intermediate hidden state between the hidden state of the estimation subject and the observable state, wherein the intermediate hidden state has a causal relationship both with the hidden state of the estimation subject and with the observable state; and in the hierarchical structure: the hidden state of the estimation subject has a structure, in which a state transits according to a time change; and the intermediate hidden state also has the structure, in which the state transits according to the time change; and the image processor comprises: at least one camera, with which the image is continuously taken; an estimation part that is configured to process at least the image taken into the image processor and that includes the hierarchical structure; means for producing predictive information of the hidden state of the estimation subject including an accuracy reduction due to disturbance at a present time t, using: estimative information of the hidden state of the estimation subject at a previous time t−1; and a state transition structure of the hidden state of the estimation subject; means for producing predictive information of the intermediate hidden state based on the state transition structure of the hidden state of the estimation subject including the accuracy reduction due to the disturbance at the present time t, using: the predictive information of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t; and the causal relationship between the hidden state of the estimation subject and the intermediate hidden state; means for producing likelihood of the intermediate hidden state including an accuracy reduction due to disturbance at the present time t, using: observed data about the observable state at the present time t; and the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t, wherein the structure of the intermediate hidden state, in which the state transits according to the time change, serves as a structure for limiting an accuracy reduction in the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state caused by the accuracy reduction due to the disturbance; means for processing the predictive information; means for producing estimative information of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t, using: the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t; and the likelihood of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t; means for producing likelihood of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t, using: the estimative information of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t; and the predictive information of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t; means for producing the estimative information of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t, using: the predictive information of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t; and the likelihood of the hidden state of the estimation subject at the present time t; and means for producing predictive information of the intermediate hidden state based on the state transition structure of the intermediate hidden state including the accuracy reduction due to the disturbance at the present time t, using: the estimative information of the intermediate hidden state at the previous time t−1; and the state transition structure of the intermediate hidden state, wherein: the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state at the present time t, the accuracy reduction of which is minimized, is produced by the processing means as a result of mixing two pieces of the predictive information according to a predetermined mixing ratio, the two pieces of the predictive information including: the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state based on the state transition structure of the hidden state of the estimation subject including the accuracy reduction due to the disturbance at the present time t; and the predictive information of the intermediate hidden state based on the state transition structure of the intermediate hidden state including the accuracy reduction due to the disturbance at the present time t.
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1. A method comprising: monitoring a power on sequence of a system by monitoring power loads, via voltage, current, impedance or timing characteristics, of functional blocks in the system, wherein the functional blocks each include at least one computing component and the power on sequence comprises a plurality of distinct stages, wherein each distinct stage of the plurality of distinct stages initializes a unique functional block of the functional blocks prior to the system being fully powered on; determining for each distinct stage of the plurality of distinct stages of the power on sequence, whether a given power load of the monitored power loads has deviated from an expected power load of a corresponding power profile included in a composite power profile for the system, wherein each power profile in the composite power profile specifies expected power characteristics, including expected voltage, current, impedance or timing characteristics, of the at least one computing component included in the corresponding unique functional block; and performing an action that generates an indication that rogue hardware is likely to be included in the system and power down the system when the given power load of a given distinct stage of the plurality of distinct stages has deviated from the expected power load for the given distinct stage.
20100010391
12433855
0
1. A method comprising: recording a plurality of postures of a patient over a period of time; identifying a set of the plurality of postures that fall within a posture state; and redefining a boundary of the posture state based on where the postures fall within the posture state.
20110159467
12650734
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1. A method of second language learning, comprising: a) presenting a lesson of language learning materials on a display to elicit a response from a learner, said materials presented on the display so that the learner is allowed to move his or her eyes freely in response to the displayed materials; b) measuring EEG data of the learner's brain activity from a plurality of electrodes placed on the learner's scalp; c) tracking the learner's eye movements to provide position signals; d) processing the position signals to determine a fixation event on the materials; e) applying a fixation-locked window to the EEG data to generate a time segment of EEG data; f) extracting one or more features from the time segment of EEG data; g) presenting said one or more features to a classifier to generate a fixation-locked cue indicative of whether the learner exhibited a significant cognitive response to the displayed materials; h) identifying the language learning materials associated with the fixation event; i) retrieving from a user model one or more latent traits tested by the language learning materials associated with the fixation event, each said latent trait representing a language learning skill, a state of each said latent trait representing the learner's mastery of that language learning skill; and j) using the fixation-locked cue to update the state of the one or more latent traits in the user model.
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13294959
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1. A system for classifying a health condition of a patient, the system comprising: a model creation engine configured to create a medical classification model by at least: receiving an identification of a clinical feature that is to be associated with a health condition, the identification being provided by one or more of an automated analysis of an electronic medical reference and a manual expert identification of the clinical feature, the clinical feature comprising one or more of the following features: an identified medication, a clinical event, a microbial culture feature, and a radiology feature, creating a rule that maps the clinical feature to the health condition in a model data repository comprising physical computer storage, wherein the rule reflects a relationship between the clinical feature and the health condition, automatically learning a weight to apply to the rule with a supervised machine learning algorithm by at least analyzing the clinical feature with respect to pre-identified outcomes in a training data set, the training data set comprising first structured clinical event data, the rule reflecting a strength of the relationship between the clinical feature and the health condition, and storing, in the model data repository, the learned weight associated with the rule for subsequent usage in identifying a patient health condition; and an outcome identification module comprising computer hardware, the outcome identification module configured to at least: access patient data corresponding to a patient, the patient data comprising second structured clinical event data stored in an electronic health record (EHR) database, analyze the second structured clinical event data to determine whether the clinical feature exists in the clinical event data, apply the rule and the weight of the medical classification model to the clinical feature to infer a possible health condition of the patient by at least matching the rule with a selected clinical feature in the second structured clinical event data corresponding to the patient, and provide one or more billing codes configured to be processed by a medical billing system, said one or more billing codes being based at least in part on the possible health condition of the patient.
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14839336
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1. A method comprising: outputting, at a user device, an image sequence that forms an environment to facilitate memorization; displaying a controllable object in the image sequence as moving along a path; controlling a position of the controllable object within each image of the image sequence, based on an input received from a user operating the user device; presenting an item object in the image sequence as an obstacle in the path to block the controllable object, the item object comprising a representation of a prompt that is correct or incorrect or incomplete; the item object including a first item object and a second item object, the first item object including first content displayed at a first time and the second item object including second content displayed at a second time, the first time being earlier than the second time; displaying the first content within the first item object, wherein the first content includes one of an image or text or audio; displaying the second content within the second item object, wherein the second content includes a plurality of images, wherein one image of the plurality of images and the first content correspond to a match, and remaining images of the plurality of images and the first content correspond to a mismatch; receiving the user input, outputting a negative image representing a negative indicator in response to the user input making a decision corresponding to an incorrect action with respect to the prompt or outputting a positive image representing a positive indicator in response to the user input making a decision corresponding to a correct action with respect to the prompt; and outputting an additional environment to facilitate memorization, wherein the additional environment includes information suitable for memorization presented according to whether the positive image or the negative image is outputted.
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11617464
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1. A computer system for controlling actions in a computer-based process, the system comprising: one or more processors operable to provide: a status schema model that is defined at design-time; and a computer-readable storage device including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations comprising: creating a status schema instance for a particular data object node instance being used in a computer-based process, the status schema instance corresponding to the status schema model, and the data object node instance including a status variable, multiple status values for the status variable, and actions capable of being performed by the data object node instance, each status value of the status variable being a precondition for at least one of the actions, the precondition identifying whether the associated action is to be allowed to be performed at runtime by the data object node instance; based on the status schema instance, monitoring a status of the status value of the status variable of the data object node instance to determine whether a precondition associated with a particular action is satisfied; in response to the determination that the precondition is satisfied, enabling the particular action to be executed; and in response to executing the particular action, altering the status value of the status variable.
8984072
13108973
1
1. A method comprising: initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences for the user, one or more connections associated with the user, and media preferences for each of the one or more connections; retrieving, at a first intermediary server, at least a portion of the user information for the user from the social networking server; generating a viewing recommendation for the user at least in part based on at least one of the media preferences of the user, and the media preferences of the one or more connections, the viewing recommendation comprising one or more multi-media content; and facilitating a peer-to-peer connection between a first client device associated with the user and a second client device associated with one of the one or more connection for real-time communication between the first client device and the second client device; wherein the generating of the viewing recommendation is further based on data received through the peer-to-peer connection; wherein the first intermediary server maintains a lookup table of only a first set of client devices directly connected to the first intermediary server; wherein the first intermediary server maintains an open communicational coupling to a second intermediary server which maintains a lookup table of only a second set of client devices connected to the second intermediary server, separate from the first set of client devices; wherein the lookup table maintained on the first intermediary server allows the first intermediary server to send a message for a receiving client device directly to an intermediary server directly connected to the receiving client device; and wherein the first and second intermediary server each comprises a separate Application Programming Interface (API) module for communicating with the social networking server.
20150039161
14471522
0
1. A control system for at least one tethered gyroglider along a flight path consistent with at least one flight mission, said control system comprising: a learning and library manager having a repository, said library manager adapted to receive and store in said repository, at least one of measured, simulated and calculated first values corresponding to at least one dynamic element associated with the at least one flight mission; at least one second value corresponding to pre-determined settings associated with the at least one flight mission; and stored flight paths associated with stored sets containing at least one of the stored first values and at least one of the stored second values, said stored flight paths corresponding to the at least one flight mission; an input manager adapted to receive current first values corresponding to the current state of said at least one dynamic element; a settings manager adapted to receive second values associated with at least one current flight mission of the at least one tethered gyroglider; a flight path controller comprising: a flight path generator adapted to receive a current set containing at least one of said current first values and at least one of said second values and the stored flight path along with the associated at least one stored set for said at least one current flight mission; said flight path generator further adapted to perform at least one of an iterative comparison, analysis, simulation, optimization, testing, ranking, rating and filtering of the received at least one current first value, with reference to the received at least one stored first value, to compute at least one corrected first value to co-operate with the received at least one second value and generate at least one determined flight path that substantially associates with said at least one current flight mission; and an editor adapted to append said stored sets with said current set containing said corrected first values, said second values and said determined flight path for said at least one current flight mission; and an activity processor adapted to receive and monitor said corrected first values and further adapted to perform at least one of allocating, segmenting, translating and transposing said corrected first values to at least one of flight control devices, generator controller, tension management means and base station control devices to achieve and generally maintain the position of the at least one tethered gyroglider along the determined flight path.
8401900
12031361
1
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium, containing a computer program comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer for present advertising data, the computer program comprising: instructions to sense current trick-play command data at an end user device; instructions to compare the current trick play command to a trick play command history to determine a trick-play trend; instructions to update trick-play trend data for the end user device based on the trick play trend; instructions to display advertising data on the end user device for a duration longer than a duration of normal playback of advertising data at normal speed that is being skipped during the current trick play command and continuing the display of the advertising data until after the duration of normal playback of the when the trick play trend data indicates that an end user at the end user device has skipped advertising data during the last two consecutive trick play commands including the current trick play command and during a most recent trick play command in the trick play command history; and instructions to display advertising data on the end user device for a duration that is equal to normal playback of advertising data at normal speed that is being skipped during the current trick play command and continuing the display of the advertising data until the duration of normal playback of the when the trick play trend data indicates that an end user at the end user device has skipped advertising data during in only one of the last two consecutive trick play commands including the current trick play command and during a most recent trick play command in the trick play command history.
20130198618
13361501
0
1. A computer-implemented method of disseminating documents, comprising: receiving user inputs to author a document using an authoring application; determining that the document is a sensitive document that is subject to a data dissemination policy; and generating a user interface display with the authoring application, while the sensitive document is being displayed, describing why the document is subject to the data dissemination policy.
8515563
12909101
1
1. A safety controller for the safety monitoring of a plant, the safety controller comprising: at least one input for connection of a sensor, at least one output for connection of an actuator, and a communication interface for connection of an upstream further safety controller arranged upstream and a downstream further safety controller arranged downstream in a line arrangement, and to exchange exchangeable control relevant information with the upstream further safety controller and the downstream further safety controller, wherein the safety controller further comprises a control unit configured to execute a control program and generate a control signal to the at least one output in accordance with predeterminable logic rules in dependence on at least one of input signals from the at least one input and the exchangeable control relevant information, wherein the control program works in self-sufficient manner within the safety controller, wherein the exchangeable control relevant information has a global meaning defined via a line arrangement in advance and independent of communication within the line arrangement in the safety controller, wherein the control program has logic rules to: receive the exchangeable control relevant information from the upstream further safety controller and the downstream further safety controller in point to point communication, internally process the exchangeable control relevant information, and provide the result of the internal processing to the communication interface for point to point communication to the upstream safety controller and the downstream safety controller, wherein control programs of the upstream and downstream safety controllers formed in the line arrangement compare with one another the exchangeable control relevant information upon activation of the safety controller, wherein the exchangeable control relevant information is at least part of a pre-defined process image of the safety controller defined independently of the line arrangement in the safety controller and valid in the overall line arrangement, and wherein the process image is not modified when adapting the plant, and all of the safety controllers, with respect to the exchangeable control relevant information, are synchronized to the same pre-defined process image.
8850376
13849706
1
1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program to cause a computer to execute a process comprising: performing an initial noise countermeasure design check on a plurality of nets provided on a substrate; and selectively performing one or more of a plurality of additional noise countermeasure design checks based on a result of the performing the initial noise countermeasure design check wherein: the plurality of noise countermeasure design checks include a first check regarding a net provided in an inner layer, a second check regarding a substrate surface pattern length, a third check regarding a noise countermeasure component, a fourth check regarding a guard pattern, and a fifth check regarding a distance from a substrate end; when the first check is the initial noise countermeasure design check the execution order of the checks is the first check, the second check, the third check, the fourth check, and the fifth check; if the first check is successful, the second check, the third check, and the fifth check are omitted; if the second check is successful, the third check and the fourth check are omitted; if the third check is successful, the fourth check is omitted; and if the fourth check is successful, the fifth check is omitted.
20040215361
10460104
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1. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that includes operating an automatic test system according to a method comprising: a) using an automatic test system containing instrument independent software; b) receiving, at a later time, an instrument with an instrument specific software component; and c) installing the instrument and the instrument specific software component in the automatic test system; d) using the automatic test system, including the instrument, through an interface between the instrument independent software and the instrument specific software.
20150161303
14521558
0
1. A computer-implemented method for automated rock physics modeling, comprising: (a) pre-processing data obtained from a suite of logging tools over a range of depths; (b) using an automated, computer-implemented procedure, determining a solution to an inverse problem associated with the rock physics model using the data from step (a), the solution including a list of optimal parameters; (c) performing a forward run of the rock physics model; and (d) computing a set of rock mechanical properties using the optimal parameters obtained in step (b).
7798896
10654585
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1. A system for effecting game play and prizing in an electronic environment, comprising: an input for receiving mandated parameters, a memory coupled to the input for storing at least the mandated parameters, the mandated parameters including at least prize payout and win rates, a processing system coupled to the memory for implementing the mandated parameters by utilizing variable parameters which define a particular game play experience, the variable parameters including at least the game structure, characterized in that the system utilizes probabilities corresponding closely with real world probabilities while the mandated parameters constrain the game to provide prizing which could not be achieved through use of said probability, storage for recording information regarding particular game play events as determined by the processor, and a presentation system for at least displaying game play events.
8826158
13374643
1
1. A device for determining changes to a graphical user interface (GUI) that does not require the use of a configuration file or the use of data from a previous operation of an application computer program, comprising: a) a first function block, having an input for receiving a GUI in which an application computer program is currently running, and having an output for transmitting what the first function block received and produced, wherein the first function block is on a user-definable computing device that includes a microprocessor; b) a second function block for determining a first tree structure for the GUI and its content while the application computer program is currently running, having an input connected to the output of the first function block, and having an output for transmitting what the second function block received and produced, wherein the second function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; c) a third function block for identifying a communication from the application computer program to the GUI while the application computer program is currently running, having a first input connected to the output of the second function block, having a second input, having a third input, and having an output for transmitting what the third function block received and produced, wherein the third function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; d) a fourth function block for determining if the communication identified in the third function block does not change the GUI while the application computer program is currently running and, if so, returning operation of the device to the third function block, otherwise transferring operation of the device to a fifth function block, having an input connected to the output of the third function block, and having an output connected to the second input of the third function block for transmitting what the fourth function block received and produced, wherein the fourth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; e) the fifth function block for determining if the GUI has changed while the application computer program is currently running and, if so, determining a second tree structure for the changed GUI while the application computer program is currently running, having an input connected to the output of the fourth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the fifth function block received and produced, wherein the fifth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; f) a sixth function block for comparing the first tree structure to the second tree structure and identifying a change there between, having an input connected to the output of the fifth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the sixth function block received and produced, wherein the sixth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; g) a seventh function block for discarding the first tree structure, having an input connected to the output of the sixth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the seventh function block received and produced, wherein the seventh function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor, and where the sixth function block is comprised of: a. a seventeenth function block for receiving the first tree structure and the second tree structure, having a first input, having a second input, having a third input, and having an output for transmitting what the seventeenth function block receives and produces, wherein the seventeenth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; b. an eighteenth function block for checking for a structure object in the first tree structure that does not appear in the second tree structure, having an input connected to the output of the seventeenth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the eighteenth function block receives and produces, wherein the eighteenth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; c. a nineteenth function block for checking for a structure object in the second tree structure that does not appear in the first tree structure, having an input connected to the output of the eighteenth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the nineteenth function block receives and produces, wherein the nineteenth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; d. a twentieth function block for selecting an object that appears in the first tree structure and the second tree structure at a top level, having an input connected to the output of the nineteenth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the twentieth function block receives and produces, wherein the twentieth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; e. a twenty-first function block for checking in the selected object a name of an object in the first tree structure and the second tree structure for any change there between, having an input connected to the output of the twentieth function block, and having an output for transmitting what the twenty-first function block receives and produces, wherein the twenty-first function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; f. a twenty-second function block for checking in the selected object a value of an object in the first tree structure and the second tree structure for any change there between, having an input connected to the output of the twenty-first function block, and having an output for transmitting what the twenty-second function block receives and produces, wherein the twenty-second function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; g. a twenty-third function block for selecting a child object if the selected object has a child object and returning to the seventeenth function block, otherwise proceeding to the next step, having an input connected to the output of the twenty-second function block, and having an output connected to the second input of the seventeenth function block for transmitting what the twenty-third function block receives and produces, wherein the twenty-third function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; and h. a twenty-fourth function block for selecting an object at a top-most level available that has not been selected and returning to the seventeenth function block, having an input connected to the output of the twenty-third function block, and having an output connected to the third input of the seventeenth function block for transmitting what the twenty-fourth function block receives and produces, wherein the twenty-fourth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; h) an eighth function block for renaming the second tree structure as the first tree structure, having an input connected to the output of the seventh function block, and having an output for transmitting what the eighth function block received and produced, wherein the eighth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor; and i) a ninth function block for transmitting the identified change to a user, and returning operation of the device to the third function block, having an input connected to the output of the eighth function block, and having an output connected to the third input of the third function block for transmitting what the ninth function block received and produced, wherein the ninth function block is on the user-definable computing device that includes the microprocessor.
20110087671
12904369
0
1. A document processing method, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a document, dividing the document into a plurality of terms, and giving a syntactic index to each of the terms; (b) dividing the document into a plurality of sentences according to at least one type of punctuation marks contained in the document; (c) selecting a plurality of key syntactic indexes from the syntactic indexes, transforming each of the sentences into a preliminary key terms sequence according to the key syntactic indexes, wherein each preliminary key terms sequence includes at least one preliminary key term corresponding to the key syntactic indexes; (d) selectively expanding the at least one preliminary key term of a representative sentence of the document into an advanced key term; and (e) determining at least one core candidate sentence from the plurality of sentences according to the preliminary key term and the advanced key term to form a core abstract of the document.
9147251
13566921
1
1. A method of tracking comprising: acquiring a first image from an image capture device; defining the first image as a reference image; acquiring a second image from the image capture device; applying, by at least one processor, a translation registration operation to the second image, a similarity registration operation to the second image, and a projective registration operation to the second image to track a pose of the image capture device with respect to the reference image; projecting and registering virtual content over the second image based on the tracked pose to form a combined image; and outputting the combined image to a display.
20110224862
13114663
0
1. A vehicular control object determination system comprising: an object detector detecting an object that is present in the direction of travel of a vehicle; a vehicle speed sensor detecting a vehicle speed; a yaw rate sensor detecting a yaw rate; a first travel locus estimator operatively coupled to the vehicle speed sensor and the yaw rate sensor, the first travel locus estimator estimating a future travel locus of the vehicle based on the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor and the yaw rate detected by the yaw rate sensor; a control object determiner determining a control object based on a detection result obtained by the object detector, a travel locus estimated by the first travel locus estimator, and predetermined control object determination conditions; a travel locus calculator calculating a past travel locus of the vehicle; a second travel locus estimator estimating a future travel locus of the vehicle based on the calculated past travel locus; and a locus correlation degree calculator determining a degree of correlation between the travel locus estimated by the first travel locus estimator and the travel locus estimated by the second travel locus estimator; the control object determiner modifying the control object determination conditions based on an output of the locus correlation degree calculator.
7590453
11796811
1
1. A method comprising: monitoring a signal that varies as a function of patient activity; periodically determining an activity level of the patient based on the signal, wherein periodically determining an activity level comprises periodically determining a number of activity counts; associating each of the determined activity levels with a therapy parameter set used by a medical device to deliver a therapy to a patient to treat incontinence when the activity level was determined; and determining a value of an activity metric for each of a plurality of therapy parameter sets based on activity levels associated with the therapy parameter sets.
20090177443
11738562
0
1. A method for detecting a change in a stream of samples acquired by a sensor, comprising the steps of: storing sequentially a stream of samples acquired by a sensor over time in a buffer in which an oldest sample is discarded and a newest sample is stored when the buffer is full, such that the buffer forms a window of samples sliding forward in time; partitioning, for each new sample, the buffer into all possible pairs of contiguous sub-windows of samples including a first sub-window and a second sub-window such that the newest sample is stored in the second sub-window of the pair; determining a difference between the first and second sub-window of each pair of the contiguous sub-windows of samples; assigning a maximum difference as a merit score; and signaling a change in the stream of samples if the merit score is greater than a predetermined threshold.
20070130124
11294265
0
1. A task-based advertisement system, comprising: a search engine that receives a query from a user; and, a task server that provides at least one task in response to the query provided from the search engine, the search engine provides information associated with the retrieved task to an advertiser that can bid on the task.
20160378723
14833238
0
1. A method for dynamically changing a rendering of content, the method comprising: receiving, at a device, the content including a textual character, an encoding of the textual character using a first code point according to a character encoding standard; detecting, at the device, that the device is present at a geographical location, the device being associated with a mobile user; selecting, at the device, a variant selection rule, wherein the variant selection rule specifies a location based condition to select a variant corresponding to the textual character; selecting, at the device, according to the variant selection rule, a variant mapping corresponding to the first code point, the variant mapping including the variant; replacing, at the device, in the rendering of the content, the encoding of the textual character with an encoding of the variant.
20060277163
11144506
0
1. A method, comprising: receiving demonstration data via a front-end application associated with a business information enterprise system; interpreting the demonstration data in accordance with at least one rule to generate business data; receiving a query at a back-end application associated with the business information enterprise system; and presenting at least a portion of the business data in accordance with the query.