14th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090086929 | MEDICAL TABLE AND X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - A medical table wherein a top board on which a patient is placed is supported by a base having an internal instrument so as to be movable parallel to the board surface, the medical table includes a detecting device that detects the possibility that a hand or fingers, which grip the top board, come in contact with the internal instrument during the movement of the top board or internal instrument, and a preventing device that prevents the movement of the top board or the internal instrument on the basis of a detection signal of the detecting device | 2009-04-02 |
20090086930 | MEDICAL TABLE AND X-RAY IMAGING APPARATUS - A medical table in which a top plate for a patient to lie on is supported by a pedestal base in a manner to be able to move parallel to a plate surface, includes a detecting device for detecting that fingers holding the top plate are about to collide against the pedestal base when moving the top plate, and a stopping device for stopping movement of the top plate according to a detection signal from the detecting device. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086931 | GEOGRAPHICAL CALL ROUTING FOR A NON-EMERGENCY CALLING SERVICE - A method for location-based communicating includes identifying a service provider based on information received from a requesting party at a networked communications apparatus. The method also includes determining whether a plurality of predefined service areas have been defined for the identified service provider. When the plurality of the at least one predefined service areas have been defined for the service provider, determinations are made as whether the requesting party is in one of the predefined service areas. When the requesting party is in a predefined service areas, information specified for a service location for the predefined service area is forwarded to the requesting party. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086932 | System and method for providing location based E-911 of network access devices registered with a network gateway - A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point may include registering network access points with a gateway. The registration may include address location of each network access point to enable the gateway to look-up and communicate the address location of a registered network access point during an emergency 911 call. The network access points may be WiFi access points. The network access point address location information may be communicated using a type II caller ID data packets after the public safety answering point goes off-hook. By communicating both the access point address information and GPS location information, PSAPs that are configured as E911 Phase I and E911 Phase II may display address information of an emergency 911 caller. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086933 | CALL ROUTING USING VOICE SIGNATURE AND HEARING CHARACTERISTICS - In an example embodiment, a system that appropriately routes calls to an agent at a contact center based on the agent's voice and/or hearing characteristics. The agent is selected by matching speech and hearing characteristics of a caller with the speech and hearing characteristics of an agent. In order to find the best match for the caller, the contact center determines if the caller is hearing impaired, and if so determines a suitable frequency range for the caller. If a match cannot be found, the agent's and/or caller's voice may be shifted in real time and adjusted to a frequency range that is best suited for the caller. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086934 | Device for Modifying and Improving the Behaviour of Speech Recognition Systems - A speech recognition system comprises a controller application, a speech recogniser, and a modification apparatus disposed between them. The controller application has an output arranged to produce a speech signal, an input arranged to receive a recognised speech result signal and a control command output arranged to produce a command signal. The speech recogniser has a pattern matcher, a speech input arranged to receive the speech signal from the controller application, an output arranged to produce the recognised speech recognised signal and a control command input arranged to receive the command signal. The modification apparatus is disposed between the output of the controller application and the input of the speech recogniser; between the output of the speech recogniser and the input of the controller application; and between the control command output of the controller application and the control command input of the speech recogniser. The modification apparatus is arranged to modify at least one of the signals between the controller application and the speech recogniser. In this way speech recognition accuracy can be significantly improved. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086935 | Method and system for workgroup voicemail message - A method, system, and medium related to workgroup voicemail. The method may include receiving a workgroup voicemail for a call placed to a callable workgroup; providing a workgroup message waiting signal to a communication device associated with a member of the callable workgroup; and displaying a workgroup message waiting indication at the communication device associated with the callable workgroup member in response to the workgroup message waiting signal, the workgroup message waiting indication being distinct from a personal message waiting indication associated with the callable workgroup member. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086936 | Verification Method and System - Systems and methods for verifying and monitoring employees are provided. Employees call-in to the system at scheduled times. If an employee misses a scheduled call-in, an alert can be generated. An employer notification process can generate the alert, notifying a supervisor of the employee's missed call. The alert can include the employee's name, the location of the employee, and the time he/she was supposed to call. Such systems and methods can be used to verify that a worker is at the proper location at the proper time and awake and alert during the entire time period that he/she is supposed to be working. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086937 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL VOICEMAIL - To enhance user interaction with voicemail messages and information that may be displayed for the voicemail messages, the present disclosure describes an improved approach to delivering voicemail messages to an electronic device, such as a mobile telephone. In one embodiment, the voicemail message is packaged into a multimedia message that is transmitted to the mobile telephone. The multimedia message may contain information that identifies the multimedia message as containing voicemail message data, such as a predetermined header and/or a scripted subject field. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086938 | TELEPHONE DEVICE - A telephone device is capable of receiving, during communication with a first external device, a call from a second external device. The telephone device includes a setting unit and a ring alert inhibiting unit. The setting unit is configured so as to be capable of setting the telephone device to either one of a first status, in which a user of the telephone device wants to perform communication, and a second status, in which the user does not want to perform communication, the setting unit being configured so as to be capable of setting the second status, either when communication is started with the first external device, or while the communication with the first external device is being executed. The ring alert inhibiting unit inhibits a sound of a ring alert for informing that a call has been received from the second external device when the telephone device is in the second status. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086939 | Method for presenting additional information about a telecommunication user - A method and system for presenting additional information about a user are provided. The user may be a calling party or a called party. A request for information in addition to the information normally contained in the caller ID may be constructed and sent to a repository of additional information that returns the additional information. If the user is a calling party, the additional information may be presented on the called party's communication device. If the user is a called party, the additional information may be presented on the calling party's communication device. A system including the repository may receive the request. An authoring and editing component of the system may allow the user or others to edit the additional information about the user. The system may select and send the additional information based on a set of parameters in the request and the access type of the requestor. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086940 | Facilities Management System - A technique is disclosed that enables the managing of environmental conditions within an enterprise workplace and, in doing so, provides an improvement in facilities cost management over some techniques in the prior art. A data-processing system such as a private-branch exchange monitors the workplace by using one or more telephones, or other “telecommunications endpoints” to which the exchange is connected, in the workplace area. The exchange determines whether people are present in the workplace area by monitoring which endpoints are in use. Additionally, the exchange monitors the sounds that are received by the microphones of the endpoints. Based on knowing which endpoints are in use, the exchange generates control signals for the purpose of controlling one or more environmental conditions such as temperature, lighting, and so forth. In some embodiments of the present invention, the exchange examines the audio content of the received signals and bases the control signals on the audio content analyzed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086941 | Systems and Methods to Connect People for Real Time Communications - Methods and apparatuses to present information to sellers/advertisers/advisors for connections to customers for real time communications. One embodiment includes: responsive to a request from a customer, determining a telephonic reference of the customer; presenting to at least one entity an option to be connected to the customer; responsive to a first entity selecting the option, initiating a telephonic connection to the customer using the determined telephonic reference of the customer to provide a telephonic connection between the customer and the first entity; and charging the first entity a fee for a lead to the customer in response to establishing the telephonic connection between the customer and the first entity. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086942 | LEASE MODEL FOR AVOIDING PERMANENT CARD LOCKING - Methods relating to prepaid services include determining an unlocked status of an account configured to track usage of prepaid services. The methods further include locking the account for a length of time after the determining step. The methods further include providing, for a service period, a service to a user associated with the account subsequent to the locking step, and continuously extending the locking for an additional length of time throughout the service period. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086943 | Identification of multiple persons on a phone call - A method in one embodiment includes receiving input identifying a plurality of callers within a listening or speaking range of a phone device being used to place a call. The input is then sent over a packet-based network to a server that authenticates and authorizes each of the callers to the call. Following authentication and authorization by the server, a name or caller ID of each of the callers is sent to a destination endpoint device of the call. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086944 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device is provided. The communication device includes a calling party information receiving unit to receive calling party information, a first call record storing unit to create and store a call record including the calling party information based on receiving conditions of the incoming call, a second call record storing unit to create and store a call record without the calling party information based on receiving conditions of the incoming call, and a call record output unit to output the call records inclusive of the call records stored by the first call record storing unit and by the second call record storing unit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086945 | Methods and Apparatus for Selecting a Service Provider on a Per-Call Basis - Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a service provider on a per-call basis A service provider is selected for a given call by receiving the given call from a caller; obtaining user preferences of the caller for the given call; matching the obtained user preferences to one or more capabilities of a plurality of available service providers; selecting a service provider for the given call based on the matching; and providing signaling to connect the caller and selected service provider The user preferences comprise can be default user preferences obtained from a database, preferences indicated by the caller as a part of the given call or a combination thereof Logging and report features are also disclosed | 2009-04-02 |
20090086946 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - A method for operating a telephone system with at least one telephony terminal to which and/or from which, in addition to voice data or user data, functional data are transmitted by means of which special functions of the telephone system are carried out, shall enable a management of the incoming information of the calling party, which can be handled in a particularly favorable way, even in case of a relatively complex structure of the system and the calling parties. For this purpose, according to the invention, a calling party is offered, as a special function, the option to edit his telephone number stored in a list of telephone numbers of the telephony terminal. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086947 | INBOUND CALL IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT - Examples of inbound call identification and management are described including a call management system that includes one or more repositories that can include data representing call action policies and data representing attributes associated with the caller devices and the callee devices. Further, the call management system can include one or more computing devices that include a call identifier (“IDer”) configured to characterize the attributes of the caller devices to form characterized attributes, a call management system controller configured to match the characterized attributes against routing criteria specified in the data representing the call action policies, and a call management system router configured to route calls from the caller devices to the callee devices responsive to a match between the characterized attributes and the routing criteria. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086948 | Method and apparatus for managing audio conferencing - A telecommunications system, including a network; a plurality of user devices operably coupled to the network; and a teleconferencing system operably coupled to the network, the teleconferencing system including a hosting service configured to allow a moderator to set up and schedule a teleconference among a plurality of participant user devices and an announcement service configured to allow for distributing moderator-defined information to the participants by automatically sending the moderator information as moderator-selected media upon a log in to the conference. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086949 | Method and apparatus for mapping of conference call participants using positional presence - A method includes receiving audio electronic business card data during a conference; comparing said audio electronic business card data with voices of conference speakers to confirm identities of said speakers; performing an acoustic triangulation to determine a position of speakers; correlating a position of said speakers with said identities; and displaying locations of said speakers. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086950 | Active call processing and notifications - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, as well as software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to processing active calls and stored calls in a communication network for packetized and/or synchronous communications, and to generating notifications relating to active calls and stored calls. Other embodiments relate to creating and implementing bypass rules that allow a party to bypass a set of default prompts to a the party's communication device while enabling the caller device to access functions of a call processing system. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086951 | Telecommunications endpoint for managing multi-conferencing - An apparatus or endpoint device is disclosed for providing the capability to simultaneously manage multiple conference calls, move participants in the conference calls from one conference call to another and subdivide or join multiple conference calls together, and the like, wherein the apparatus or endpoint device provides a multi-conferencing capability that enables one or more teleconferencing participants to manage multiple teleconferences simultaneously. Each participant in the teleconference call manages their respective teleconference through their apparatus or endpoint device at their specific location by using it to adjust the teleconferencing topology, i.e., who should form what part of each specific teleconference call. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086952 | Multi-conferencing capability - A system and method for providing the capability to simultaneously manage multiple conference calls, move participants in the conference calls from one conference call to another and subdivide or join multiple conference calls together, and the like, wherein a participant seeking to initiate conference calls does so at his or her endpoint by selecting conference call identifiers, where the identifiers identify conference calls to be created. The initiating participant then selects the participants to be associated with the particular calls and confirms the selection. Upon confirmation of the selection, the conference calls among the selected participants are established. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086953 | ACTIVE CALL FILTERING, SCREENING AND DISPATCHING - An examples of active call filtering, screening and dispatching is described, including receiving data representing a call from a first communication endpoint; presenting at a second communication endpoint, prior to connecting to the call, a subset of prompts that specify dispatching actions for the call, at least one of the dispatching actions including transmitting a response via a communications network, detecting selection of a prompt that specifies a dispatching action for the call, and transmitting an instruction from the second communication endpoint to a call messaging system to perform the dispatching action. In some embodiments, a determination is made as to whether a bypass condition exists, the bypass condition specifying that one or more customized screening rules are to be bypassed. If the bypass condition exists, then a call messaging system can bypass the use of a subset of prompts. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086954 | Method and apparatus for selecting a network for telecommunication - A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for selecting a network for telecommunication are provided. A type of network supporting a called identifier is identified. Several types of networks are accessible to a calling communication device. The network corresponding to the identified network is selected at the calling communication device. The call is completed using the selected network. A database is queried with a query including the called identifier. The response to the query is used for identifying the identified network from the response. The query may be sent to a local database, a remote database, or both. The local database may include information about frequently called identifiers as well as called identifiers that are provided by a user. The identified network may be overridden by selecting a network of a type that is different from the type of network supporting the called identifier. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086955 | Method and apparatus for conducting analog communication over a data cable - A method and apparatus for conducting analog communication are provided. A first set of wires carrying a data signal is coupled to a data network. A second set of wires carrying an analog signal is coupled to an analog communication network. A single connector is coupled to the first and second sets of wires. A port in a communication device is coupled to the connector. The communication device communicates the data signal and the analog signal over the first and second sets of wires respectively. The second set of wires may be separate from the first set. The second set of wires may be a subset of the first set, in which case, a filter filters an incoming analog signal from an incoming signal on the second set of wires. A multiplexer multiplexes an outgoing analog signal with an outgoing data signal on the second set of wires. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086956 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THROTTLING MASS NOTIFICATIONS - A method for allocating a call batch that includes a plurality of calls, to one out of a possible “n” providers for near simultaneous transmission by the one provider to a plurality of recipients, wherein each of the “n” providers has an overall capacity and a current level of use. In particular, the method comprises computing the potential free capacity of each provider by subtracting the call batch size from the actual capacity, and dividing the potential free capacity by the overall capacity to determine the proportion potential free capacity; and allocating the call batch to the provider having the largest proportion potential free capacity. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086957 | Real-Time Collaboration Center - A real-time collaboration center and method for using the same are described herein which enables a caller (end-user) to have a real-time collaboration session with a call center agent. In one embodiment, the real-time collaboration center is able to create a new real-time collaboration session for a caller where the caller is routed to the real-time collaboration session in which they might be joined by an automated call center agent which could provide product information and/or gather information to/from the caller while they wait for the live call center agent. When a live call center agent with the appropriate skill set becomes available, then he/she receives an invitation to join the real-time collaboration session where the two parties can then interact with voice, instant messaging, application/desktop sharing, and other media. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086958 | Systems and Methods to Provide Alternative Connections for Real Time Communications - Methods and apparatuses to provide options for alternative connections in response to customer requesting for connections to advertisers for real time communications. One embodiment includes: providing an advertisement of a first advertiser for presentation to a customer, the advertisement including a reference to be used to request a connection server to provide a telephonic connection between the first advertiser and the customer; receiving a request made via the reference included in the advertisement for a telephonic connection between the first advertiser and the customer; determining a status of the first advertiser at a time of the request; and presenting an option to make an alternative connection for the customer based on the determined status. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086959 | Method and System for Hierarchicy Based Contact Routing - Resource allocation in a contact center can be performed using a network of nodes. Such a network of nodes can be organized according into resource nodes, domain nodes, and service nodes, with paths from the domain nodes, through the service nodes, to the resource nodes being used in the allocation. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086960 | System and method of delivering DSL services - A system and method for delivering digital subscriber line (DSL) service to a subscriber from a remote terminal of a telephone network. Included is a first route for delivering a telephone signal to the subscriber, and a second route for passing the telephone signal through a DSL system before delivering the signal to the subscriber. A disrupter is then used to selectively activate either the first or second route. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086961 | MONTGOMERY MASKED MODULAR MULTIPLICATION PROCESS AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - This invention concerns a Montgomery masked modular multiplication process and the associated device. The modular multiplication, in congruence n, includes at least a stage generating a pseudo-random number z and a stage adding to the result the product of the said number by n. The invention applies in particular to the securing of processors dedicated to cryptographic calculations. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086962 | ENCRYPTION OPERATING APPARATUS - Valid code data and invalid code data are alternately input to a register that fetches data synchronously with a clock signal. A state of a data value input to the register is monitored. Each time when it is determined that the data is stabilized by the valid code data, the register holds the valid code data. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086963 | Systems and Methods for Protecting the Anonymity of Entities - Systems and methods for protecting the anonymity of one or more entities comprising personalizing a reference associated with information about an entity using one or more codes associated with a viewing entity to generate a personalized reference with which to present the information to the viewing entity. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086964 | PROVIDING LOCAL STORAGE SERVICE TO APPLICATIONS THAT RUN IN AN APPLICATION EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for providing local storage service to applications that run in an application execution environment. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from one of the applications, wherein the request triggers local storage of information; obtaining an encryption key based on identifiers including a first identifier corresponding to the application execution environment, a second identifier corresponding to the one application, and a third identifier corresponding to the computing apparatus; encrypting the information using the encryption key; and storing the encrypted information in the computing apparatus. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086965 | SECURE, TWO-STAGE STORAGE SYSTEM - A two-stage storage security system comprising an address translator and a cryptographic engine for a mobile computing platform is provided. In response to a write operation, the address translator receives unencrypted data blocks, from an initiator, and associates the blocks with corresponding scrambled data storage addresses. The cryptographic engine encrypts the unencrypted data blocks to be stored on the platform storage component at the corresponding scrambled data storage addresses. The address translator applies a predetermined reversible translation function to reversibly remap addresses, and the cryptographic engine applies a predetermined cryptographic technique to encrypt and decrypt the data blocks. In a read operation, encrypted data blocks retrieved from the storage component are decrypted and restored to an original logical order. Decryption of storage component data is allowed when storage component is coupled to the corresponding platform. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086966 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION METHOD AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an information storage medium comprises a content encrypted by a content encryption key; a content encryption key file encrypted by a first encryption key or third encryption key; an encryption key block from which a third encryption key prime providing a source of the first encryption key or third encryption key by being processed by using a second encryption key of a player; and a program configured to make the player calculate the third encryption key from the third encryption key prime. The content encryption key file comprises a flag indicating whether the key file is encrypted by the third encryption key or first encryption key. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086967 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is supplied capable of preventing an information leakage even if encrypted print data outflows from the image forming apparatus. In the image forming apparatus, a first encryption key storing section stores a first part encryption key generated by a part of an encryption key; a second encryption key storing section stores a second part encryption key generated by other part of the encryption key; an encryption key generating section reads out the second part encryption key when the second encryption key storing section is attached, reads out the first part encryption key, generates the encryption key, and stores it into a volatility memory; an encryption processing section encrypts print information through using the encryption key, and makes encryption print information; a nonvolatility storing section stores the encryption print information; a decryption processing section reads out the encryption print information and the encryption key, and decrypts the print information; and an image forming section forms an image of the decrypted print information. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086968 | A METHOD FOR THE APPLICATION OF IMPLICIT SIGNATURE SCHEMES - A method of verifying a transaction over a data communication system between a first and second correspondent through the use of a certifying authority. The certifying authority has control of a certificate's validity, which is used by at least the first correspondent. The method comprises the following steps. One of the first and second correspondents advising the certifying authority that the certificate is to be validated. The certifying authority verifies the validity of the certificate attributed to the first correspondent. The certifying authority generates implicit signature components including specific authorization information. At least one of the implicit signature components is forwarded to the first correspondent for permitting the first correspondent to generate an ephemeral private key. At least one of the implicit signature components is forwarded to the second correspondent for permitting recovery of an ephemeral public key corresponding to the ephemeral private key. The first correspondent signs a message with the ephemeral private key and forwards the message to the second correspondent. The second correspondent attempts to verify the signature using the ephemeral public key and proceeds with the transaction upon verification. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086969 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR A MULTIPLE DWELLING UNIT USING AN ENCRYPTION - A communication system | 2009-04-02 |
20090086970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY PROVIDING AND STORING CONTENT IN A MULTIPLE DWELLING UNIT SYSTEM - A communication system | 2009-04-02 |
20090086971 | SELECTIVE SECURITY TERMINATION IN NEXT GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS - Systems and/or methods of selectively terminating security in mobile networks are presented. User equipment (UE) can specify cipher termination location capabilities for encrypting/decrypting data packets to a base station in a mobile network. The mobile network can subsequently determine at which node in the network to terminate the cipher in part according to the capabilities provided and deliver the determined location to the UE. The determined cipher termination location can be provided in response to a request to initiate communications, the initial request can specify the capabilities. The UE can utilize the location to support disparate types of networks and to intelligently deal with hand-offs and other functions of the mobile network. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086972 | SUPPRESSING POWER SUPPLY NOISE USING DATA SCRAMBLING IN DOUBLE DATA RATE MEMORY SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for suppressing power supply noise using data scrambling in double data rate memory systems. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a transmit data path to transmit data to one or more memory devices. The transmit data path may include scrambling logic to generate, in parallel, N pseudo random outputs that are uncorrelated with each other. The output data and the pseudo random outputs are input to XOR logic. The transmit data path transmits the output the of XOR logic which has a substantially white frequency spectrum. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086973 | Method and Apparatus for Authenticating Nodes in a Wireless Network - The invention includes a method and apparatus for authenticating a wireless node requesting to join a network. A method includes receiving an authentication request from the wireless node, negotiating at least one authentication parameter with the wireless node, deriving a first encryption key using the at least one authentication parameter, encrypting a second encryption key using the first encryption key, and propagating the encrypted second encryption key toward the wireless node, wherein the wireless node independently derives the first encryption key for use in decrypting the encrypted second encryption key received from the authentication server node. The wireless node decrypts the encrypted second encryption key and stores the second encryption key for use to securely communicate with other wireless nodes of the network. In one embodiment, the present invention may be implemented using a modified version of the EAP-TLS protocol, in which rather than a Pairwise Master Key (PMK) being sent from the authentication server node to the wireless node, the authentication server node and the wireless node each derive the PMK and the authentication server node securely provides a group encryption key to the wireless node by encrypting the group encryption key using the PMK. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086974 | Support for Multiple Security Policies on a Unified Authentication Architecture - A method, computer program product, and data processing system are disclosed for ensuring that applications executed in the data processing system originate only from trusted sources are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a secure operating kernel maintains a “key ring” containing keys corresponding to trusted software vendors. The secure kernel uses vendor keys to verify that a given application was signed by an approved vendor. To make it possible for independent developers to develop software for the herein-described platform, a “global key pair” is provided in which both the public and private keys of the pair are publicly known, so that anyone may sign an application with the global key. Such an application may be allowed to execute by including the global key pair's public key in the key ring as a “vendor key” or, conversely, it may be disallowed by excluding the global public key from the key ring. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086975 | Flexible format media content and method for providing same - There is presented a method for providing a media content, one embodiment comprising recording a first version of a movie on a first content medium in a first format, encrypting one or more content supplement to the movie, each content supplement having a format different from the first format, embedding at least one encryption key in each content supplement, providing a retrieval code for key data enabling playback of the content supplement, and bundling the content supplement and the retrieval code for distribution with the first content medium. In one embodiment, a flexible format media bundle comprises a first content medium, a first version of a media content recorded on the first content medium in a first format, at least one content supplement having a different format, at least one encryption key, and a retrieval code enabling access to the content supplement. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086976 | SUBSTITUTION TABLE MASKING FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES - A computing device-implemented method and system is provided for obtaining an interim masked substitution table value for a given input component in a cryptographic round, such as an AES cryptographic round, using a substitution table and a self-cancelling mask. A mask with a length equal to an entry in the substitution table is provided, wherein the mask comprises a plurality of mask components of equal length such that a bitwise logical inequality operation such as NOR on the mask components equals zero, and the substitution table is masked with this mask. For each of input component, an interim masked substitution table value is obtained from the substitution table thus masked. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PASS A PRIVATE ENCRYPTION KEY - A method includes receiving, via a network, a request to provision and provide a private key, the private key being for use with a public and private key system. The method further includes identifying a requester that has made the request via the network and initiating a secure session with the requester. The method also includes providing the private key using the secure session, and provisioning the private key. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086978 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT DISTRIBUTION - Method and system for transferring encrypted content from a server to a storage device are provided. The method includes encrypting the content using a first key, wherein the server encrypts the content; establishing a secure communication channel between the server and the storage device using a random session key; sending the first key to the storage device via the secure communication channel; replacing the random session key with the first key; sending the encrypted content to the storage device after the random session key is replaced with the first key; decrypting the encrypted content using the first key, wherein the storage device decrypts the encrypted content; re-encrypting the decrypted content using a second key generated by the storage device; and storing the re-encrypted content at the storage device. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086979 | VIRTUAL TPM KEYS ROOTED IN A HARDWARE TPM - The present subject matter related to trusted computing, and more particularly, to virtual trusted platform module keys rooted in a hardware trusted platform module. Some embodiments include a trusted platform virtualization module operable to capture virtual machine trusted platform module calls and operates to generate, maintain, and utilize hardware trusted platform module keys on behalf of the one or more virtual machines. Some embodiments include virtual trusted platform module keys having a public portion on top of an private portion including an encrypted hardware trusted platform module key. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086980 | ENABLING A SECURE OEM PLATFORM FEATURE IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A platform feature licensing module (e.g., a USB Smart Card Token) securely stores and communicates a platform feature enabling license, corresponding to a selectable platform feature, to an authenticated platform. The module includes a secure microcontroller, a secure communication port, and secure non-volatile memory in which is stored the platform feature enabling license. The module is configured to securely communicate with, and to authenticate the identity of the platform, via an integrated embedded controller embedded into the platform. The integrated embedded controller enables the selectable platform feature in response to a platform feature enabling license received from the platform feature licensing module. The integrated embedded controller and platform feature licensing module communicate securely using a predetermined public-key cryptography technique, with each having a PKI-based key pair to provide authentication and cryptographic services. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086981 | Methods and Apparatus for Batch Bound Authentication - A processing system may include a processing unit and nonvolatile storage responsive to the processing unit. The nonvolatile storage may include a candidate boot code module and an authentication code module. The processing unit may be configured to execute code from the authentication code module before executing code from the candidate boot code module. The authentication code module may have instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to read a processor identifier from the processing unit and determine whether the processor belongs to a predetermined set of processors associated with a specific vendor, based at least in part on the identifier, before executing any instructions from the candidate boot code module. The processing system may also test authenticity of the candidate boot code module before executing any instructions from the candidate boot code module. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086982 | CROSSTALK CANCELLATION FOR CLOSELY SPACED SPEAKERS - A technique for canceling acoustic crosstalk is provided including a pre-processing filter and a crosstalk cancellation device. The pre-processing filter may be configured to obtain first and second channel signals and compensate or adjust the first and/or second channel signals for anticipated subsequent stage distortion by the crosstalk cancellation device. The crosstalk cancellation device maybe configured to receive the compensated first and second channel signals from the pre-processing filter. The crosstalk cancellation device then modifies the first channel signal to cancel anticipated acoustic crosstalk from the second channel signal, and modifies the second channel signal to cancel acoustic crosstalk from the first channel signal. The modified first channel signal is then transmitted over a first speaker and the modified second channel signal is transmitted over a second speaker. The first and second speakers may be closely spaced, yet provide a widened stereo image of the first and second channel signals. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086983 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AUDIO SIGNALS - A system and method of transmitting audio signals. Frequency modulated carrier signals that each have an audio signal are mixed. The mixed signal is converted into a low voltage signal into which a feed voltage is coupled. The coupled signal is transmitted through a single line of a transmission cable to an audio signal infrared transmitter unit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086984 | Method and Apparatus for Reducing Noise in an Audio Signal - A technique for reducing inherent noise in a real time digital audio wireless system. The technique allows for low power stereo analog to digital and digital to analog converters to be used in a battery operated real time digital audio wireless applications. The audio signal is sent to the left and right channels of an analog to digital converter with a preceding audio amp of different gain at the input to each channel. The signals are simultaneously digitized then combined to generate a new digital value resulting in noise reduction at lower amplitudes. This new data word is then transmitted via radio waves to a digital audio receiver. Once the data is received it is output simultaneously to a stereo digital to analog converter. The digital to analog conversion of both left and right channels is then summed using a resistor network and an audio amplifier. The audio amplifier output is then reduced to create further reduction of noise at all amplitudes. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086985 | Apparatus and method for testing audio jacks of sound card - An apparatus and a method for testing audio jacks of a sound card are applicable for detecting whether at least one audio jack of the sound card in a personal computer (PC) sounds normally. Each audio jack provides at least one sound channel for transmitting a sound signal. The testing system includes driving circuits and a plurality of light-emitting units. The driving circuits are electrically connected to the sound card and an external voltage source, and used to change a current transmitting path according to the received sound signal. The light-emitting units are electrically connected to the driving circuits, and receive the current generated from the driving circuit, such that the light-emitting units emit lights. A sound channel to be tested is selected first, and a sound signal is sent to the sound channel. After the testing apparatus receives the sound signal, the light-emitting units emit lights. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086986 | EFFICIENT AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING IN THE SUB-BAND REGIME - A signal processing system enhances an audio signal. The audio signal is divided into audio sub-band signals. Some audio sub-band signals are excised. Other audio sub-band signals are processed to obtain enhanced audio sub-band signals. At least a portion of the excised audio sub-band signals are reconstructed. The reconstructed audio sub-band signals are synthesized with the enhanced audio sub-band signals to form an enhanced audio signal. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086987 | Method and System for Removal of Clicks and Noise in a Redirected Audio Stream - There is provided a method of redirecting an audio stream from a first audio endpoint to a second audio endpoint in a computer operating system. The method includes directing the audio stream from a client application through a first audio resource stack to the first audio endpoint; creating an audio endpoint bridge to provide a path for the audio stream from the first audio resource stack through a second audio resource stack connected to the second audio endpoint; and redirecting the audio stream to the second audio endpoint using the audio endpoint bridge. The audio endpoint bridge can be created by forming a bridging application so as to activate the second audio stack. The bridging application can be hooked into a Windows audio engine in the second audio resource stack. The bridge can be used to intercept an audio stream and remove noise from it. Additionally, a specific type of noise with sporadic intermittent spikes has been observed in this audio framework with certain Bluetooth headsets. A system and method is described for removing this specific type of noise. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086988 | NOISE REDUCTION HEADSETS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THE SAME - A headphone ( | 2009-04-02 |
20090086989 | Method and System for Providing Fast and Accurate Adaptive Control Methods - In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method is offered that includes providing a low-pass filter in an adaptive filter architecture employing a fast steepest descent method. The method further includes decomposing an error signal, injecting a small change to one or more weight parameters for a linear combiner, measuring changes in an error correlation vector, and calculating one or more gradients, wherein the gradients are processed by the low-pass filter. In more particular embodiments, one or more of the gradients are processed by the low-pass-filter in order to remove measurement noise and improve accuracy. In addition, a real gradient of the error correlation vector is monitored such that adaptations can be made due to non-linearity and non-constant characteristics of a channel. The low-pass filter may be replaced with a Kalman Filter for faster convergence. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086990 | ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL USING BASS MANAGEMENT - An active noise cancellation system reduces, at a listening position, the power of a noise signal being radiated from a noise source to the listening position. The system includes an adaptive filter that receives a reference signal representing the noise signal, and provides a compensation signal. A bass management unit receives the compensation signal and applies a phase shift to the compensation signal to provide a phase shifted compensation signal. A first acoustic radiator receives the phase shifted compensation signal and radiates audio indicative thereof to the listening position. A second acoustic radiator receives the compensation signal and radiates audio indicative thereof to the listening position. The transfer function characteristics from the input of the bass management system to the listening position approximately matches a desired transfer function. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086991 | HEADSET - Provided is a headset including a main housing and a speaker housing that are integrally formed with each other and a rear-side sound-leakage preventing section to shield sound emitted towards a rear side of a speaker. To this end, the headset includes a main housing integrally formed with a speaker housing that protrudes from the main housing, at least one rear-side sound-leakage preventing unit engaged with an inner side of the speaker housing to shield sound emitted towards a rear side of a speaker, and a mounting unit to sequentially couple the speaker and the at least one rear-side sound-leakage preventing unit to the inner side of the speaker housing and mount the at least one rear-side sound-leakage preventing units in the inner side of the speaker housing. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086992 | MICROPHONE CIRCUIT AND CHARGE AMPLIFIER THEREOF - The invention provides a microphone circuit. In one embodiment, the microphone circuit comprises a microphone, a self-biased amplifier with a finite gain, and a feedback capacitor. The microphone coupled between a ground and a first node generates a first voltage at the first node according to sound pressure. The self-biased amplifier has a positive input terminal coupled to the ground and a negative input terminal coupled to the first node and amplifies the first voltage according to the finite gain to generate a second voltage at a second node. The feedback capacitor coupled between the first node and the second node feeds back the second voltage to the first node. The second voltage is then output to a following module subsequent to the microphone circuit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086993 | Sound source direction detecting apparatus, sound source direction detecting method, and sound source direction detecting camera - Disclosed herein is a sound source direction detecting apparatus including: a plurality of microphones configured to collect sounds from a sound source in order to form an audio frame; a frequency decomposition section configured to decompose the audio frame into frequency components; an error range determination section configured to determine the effects of noises collected together with the sounds as an error range relative to phases; a power level dispersion section configured to disperse power levels of the sounds for each of the frequency components decomposed by the frequency decomposition section, on the basis of the error range determined by the error range determination section; a power level addition section configured to add the power levels dispersed by the power level dispersion section; and a sound source direction detection section configured to detect the direction of the sound source based on the phase at which is located the highest of the power levels added by the power level addition section. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086994 | METHOD FOR REDUCING AUDIO NOISE OF DISPLAY AND DRIVING DEVICE THEREOF - A method for reducing audio noise of a display is provided. A horizontal synchronization signal, a reference signal and a substrate voltage signal are generated. The reference signal has a preset width at high level status. The status transition of the substrate voltage signal is based on each scan line corresponding to the horizontal synchronization signal. In each period of the substrate voltage signal, the status transition of the raising and falling edges is based on the high level status of the reference signal, and the transition timings of the raising edges and the falling edges are advanced or delayed based on a reference value of the high level status of the reference signal. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086995 | AUTOMATIC BASS MANAGEMENT - A method for an automatic equalization of sound pressure levels in at least one listening location, where the sound pressure is generated by a first and at least a second loudspeaker, comprising supplying an audio signal of a programmable frequency to each loudspeaker, where the audio signal supplied to the second loudspeaker is phase-shifted by a programmable phase shift relative to the audio signal supplied to the first loudspeaker, and where the phase shifts of the audio signals supplied to the other loudspeakers thereby are initially zero or constant; measuring the sound pressure level at each listening location for different phase shifts and for different frequencies; providing a cost function dependent on the sound pressure level; and searching a frequency dependent optimal phase shift that yields an extremum of the cost function, thus obtaining a phase function representing the optimal phase shift as a function of frequency. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNAL - The present invention provides for methods and systems for digitally processing an audio signal. Specifically, the present invention provides for a speaker system that is configured to digitally process an audio signal in a manner such that studio-quality sound that can be reproduced. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING RING TONE VOLUME - A method for increasing ring tone volume is provided. The method includes steps of: reading an audio file which is set as a current ring tone; determining whether the ring tone is a MP3 audio file or a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) audio file; adjusting frequencies by using an equalizer technique to increase volume of the ring tone if the ring tone is the MP3 audio file; adjusting a volume level of the ring tone to be the highest volume level, and adjusting timbre of the ring tone to increase the ring tone volume by simulating a musical score of the ring tone by using different instruments if the ring tone is the MIDI audio file. A related system is also provided. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086998 | Method and apparatus for identifying sound sources from mixed sound signal - A method and apparatus for discriminating sound sources from a mixed sound is provided. The method includes separating sound source signals from a mixed sound signal including a plurality of sound source signals that are input through a microphone array, estimating a transfer function of a mixing channel mixing the plurality of sound source signals from relationships between the mixed sound signal and the separated sound source signals, obtaining input signals of the microphone array by multiplying the estimated transfer function by the separated sound source signals, and calculating location information of each sound source using a predetermined sound source location estimation method based on the obtained input signals. | 2009-04-02 |
20090086999 | Acoustic Transducer and Microphone Using the Same - An acoustic transducer comprises a substrate, a membrane configured to move relative to the substrate, a number of supports configured to suspend the membrane over the substrate, a first group of projections extending from the membrane, and a second group of projections extending from the substrate, the second group of projections being interweaved with and movable relative to the first group of projections, wherein each projection of one group of the first group of projections and the second group of projections is composed of a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a dielectric layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and each projection of the other one group of the first group of projections and the second group of projections is composed of a third conductive layer. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087000 | Array speaker system and method of implementing the same - Provided are an array speaker system and a method of implementing the same. The array speaker system includes a group setting unit setting one or more combinations of a plurality of speakers included in an array speaker system into at least one group according to a predetermined adjustment factor, a signal assignment unit dividing an input signal into at least one sound source signal according to the adjustment factor and selectively assigning the divided sound source signal(s) to the set group(s), a sound adjustment unit adjusting a sound source signal to be output through speakers within the group according to sound source characteristics of the group, and a signal output unit outputting the adjusted sound source signal through the speakers within the group. Using the array speaker system, sound adjustment and sound output optimized for each frequency band can be obtained during output of a sound source signal having a broad range of frequencies, and a near-field effect that distorts an output sound source signal can be prevented. Moreover, stereo and multi-channel effects can be obtained and the directivity of the array speaker system can be improved. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087001 | Decorative loudspeaker grille - A loudspeaker grille for a wall-mount loudspeaker in a home environment is disclosed, which comprises a frame attached directly to a wall where a loudspeaker being mounted, the loudspeaker enclosure lending no support to the frame, and a cover stretched across the frame, the cover being substantially transparent to acoustic energy, wherein the cover provides protection as well as decoration to the underneath loudspeaker. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087002 | ELECTROSTATIC SPEAKER - An electrostatic speaker is constituted of a vibrator, conductive cloths, and elastic members, which are laminated together and woven together using strings. Since all the constituent elements are restrained in positioning by strings, the overall structure thereof is not substantially changed even when the electrostatic speaker is deformed in shape by bending or curving, wherein it is possible to secure the prescribed positional relationship between the constituent elements, which are not deviated in positioning. It is possible to introduce a sheet composed of a thermoplastic resin, which holds the vibrator and elastic members therein. The conductive cloths can be replaced with film electrodes, each of which is formed such that a conductive polymer layer is formed on a base film composed of a thermoplastic resin. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN IN-EAR ACOUSTIC RESPONSE FOR CONFIRMING THE IDENTITY OF A USER - A system and method is provided for confirming the identity of a user, where the confirmation is made using biometric data. The system includes an internal speaker having an audio port, which is positioned within the ear of the user, and is adapted for producing a signal having one or more frequencies. The system further includes an internal microphone having an audio port, which is positioned within the ear of the user, and is adapted for detecting a resulting signal including the signal produced by the internal speaker and any corresponding signal reflections. A determination is then made as to whether the resulting signal detected by the internal microphone matches the corresponding predetermined expected signal, based upon a prestored hearing profile. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087004 | Operating device for a hearing aid - An especially small operating device for a hearing aid, but one which is nevertheless simple for a user to actuate manually, which still enables a multiplicity of different operating functions in a simple and clear manner is provided. The use of a fingerprint sensor is provided for this purpose, whereby different operating functions are assigned to the individual fingers of the user. Depending on the finger with which the user actuates the fingerprint sensor, different operating functions are initiated. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087005 | Fully automatic switching on/off in hearing aids - In a hearing aid system comprising two hearing aids between which wireless signal transmission is provided. The hearing aids are automatically switched on and off. To this end, a field strength or value of an electromagnetic signal received by a hearing aid that is transmitted from the respective other hearing aid may be determined. The determined value is compared with a threshold value, the relevant hearing aid being switched off (sleep mode), as long as the field strength is greater than the threshold value and the hearing aid being switched on as long as the measured field strength is lower than the threshold value. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087006 | Sound tube for a hearing device - A sound tube is provided for the transmission of sound from a hearing device that can be worn on the ear to the auditory canal of the user with a first tube piece, to whose first end an adapter is secured for connection to the hearing device, and a second tube piece formed in two parts with the first tube piece. A connecting piece serves to connect the two tube pieces. It ensures that the first tube piece can be rotated or pivoted in relation to the second tube piece. In a further embodiment one of the two tube pieces can pushed to a differing degree into or onto the connecting piece. The sound tube can therefore be used for ears of different sizes as well as for the left and right sides. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087007 | BELLY POUCH SPEAKER SYSTEM - The present invention provides a belly pouch speaker system for delivering music to a pregnant belly for facilitating prenatal development. The system generally includes a pouch having a pair of speaker compartments, each having a corresponding speaker positioned therein. The pouch further includes a central compartment, disposed between the speaker compartments, for maintaining a music player therein and coupled to the speakers by audio speaker lines. A fastener cooperates with the pouch and is disposed such that the pouch may be maintained about the belly of the user by selectively adjusting the the fastener. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087008 | Sound Reproduction With Improved Low Frequency Characteristics - A sound reproduction system ( | 2009-04-02 |
20090087009 | MICROPHONE ASSEMBLY WITH A REPLACEABLE PART - The invention relates to a microphone assembly comprising a housing, a microphone element within the housing, a base element, contacting elements, a removable element, and connecting means. The housing is configured such that it may be opened and re-closed. The base element is positioned inside the housing and comprises one or more first electrical conductors. The base element comprises one or more first conducting surface parts connected to one or more of the first conductors. The contacting elements facilitate electrical contact between one or more of the first conductors and one or more conductors positioned outside the housing. The removable element is positioned within the housing and comprises one or more second electrically conductive surface parts. The connecting means provides an easily breakable/removable electrical connection between a first surface part and a second surface part. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087010 | CARRIER CHIP WITH CAVITY - A microphone apparatus includes a carrier chip and a microphone chip. The carrier chip includes a substrate with parallel top and bottom surfaces, a metallization layer overlying the top surface, and a cylindrical cavity that is bored through the top surface and the metallization layer and partially through the carrier substrate. The microphone chip includes a substrate with parallel top and bottom surfaces, a cylindrical cavity extending from the microphone substrate top surface to the microphone substrate bottom surface, and a diaphragm attached to the microphone substrate bottom surface and extending across the microphone cavity. The microphone chip is fixed to the carrier chip, with the microphone cavity overlying the carrier cavity, and the diaphragm covering the carrier cavity and electrically connected to the metallization layer. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087011 | PORTABLE TERMINAL WITH BUILT-IN ANTENNA - Provided is a portable terminal including a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing for sliding relative to the first housing while adjacent to the first housing, an antenna device disposed in the first housing, and a speaker module comprising at least one speaker unit and being one of exposed and concealed by the first housing based on the sliding position the second housing relative to the first housing, the speaker module being disposed in the second housing. The antenna device is disposed in a space between an inner face of the second housing and the speaker module, when the sliding position of second housing relative to the first housing is such that the second housing overlaps with the first housing. There is a space adjacent to the antenna device between the inner face of the second housing and the speaker module, when the speaker module is exposed by sliding the second housing. The portable terminal can mitigate interference between the antenna pattern and the speaker units while allowing the speaker module to overlap with the antenna device, thereby guaranteeing sufficient antenna performance. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087012 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SIMILARITIES AMONG ALARMS - Systems and methods for classifying targets within a container are provided. In one aspect, a method for resolving an alarm raised by an imaging system is provided, the imaging system alarm triggered by an alarm target including a plurality of objects. The method includes receiving a plurality of images from the imaging system, calculating at least one feature value for each object of the plurality of objects, determining whether each object is part of the alarm target, and rendering a decision on the alarm target. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087013 | RAY MAPPING - The application discloses the use of light rays from a region and based on those light rays generates a map of the region. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087014 | SKEW/DOUBLEFEED DETECTION IN SCANNED IMAGES - A system and method for identifying a status such as, for example, skew and/or double feed, of a scanned image. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087015 | PARENTAL MONITORING METHOD USING PERIODIC IMAGE SAMPLING - There is provided a system and/or method of monitoring media content. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a method of monitoring operation of an electronic device having a plurality of signal inputs, the method comprising periodically collecting images from each of the plurality of signal inputs, storing the collected images for later evaluation if an image storage option is enabled, and sending the collected images for direct viewing if the image storage option is not enabled. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087016 | Content based adjustment of an image - A video input signal is analyzed to detect image content and image properties, wherein detecting the image content includes automatically deriving image features. A content group is determined for the video input signal based on the detected image content, the content group including predefined image properties. The image properties of the video input signal are adjusted based on a difference between the detected image properties and the predefined image properties. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087017 | HANDWRITTEN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HANDWRITTEN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING HANDWRITTEN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A handwritten information management system, which includes a paper sheet document generation section that generates a paper sheet document in which plurality pieces of coded information including coordinate information indicating a position on a paper sheet and document identification information of the paper sheet document formed on the paper sheet are recorded; a paper sheet document registration section that registers the generated paper sheet document and an electronic document corresponding to the paper sheet document correlated with the document identification information; a handwritten information detection section that detects handwritten information handwriting on the generated paper sheet document; a handwritten information registration section that registers handwritten information identification information to identify the handwritten information correlated with the detected handwritten information; and an identification information management section that manages the document identification information and the handwritten information identification information. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087018 | PERCEPTABILITY MODEL APPLIED TO WATERMARK SIGNALS - This document relates generally to digital watermarking. One claim recites a method including: obtaining data representing visual media; determining a model through iteratively embedding a digital watermark signal in the data; and embedding the digital watermark signal in the data according to the model. The model maximizes robustness of the digital watermark signal while minimizing perceptibility of the digital watermark signal when the signal is embedded in the data. A new embedding form or embedding mask is created after each embedding iteration. Of course, other combinations are described and claimed as well. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087019 | Method fo rthe simultaneous deposition of a set of patterns on a substrate by a macrostamp - A stamp for depositing materials in the form of imprints on a surface of a substrate. The stamp includes a template and pins joined at one end to a first face of the template. The pins are arranged on the first face of the template so that the faces of all the pins joined to the template can be placed in contact virtually simultaneously on the surface of the substrate. The disclosed embodiments also relate to a method for fabricating the stamp and to a method for the virtually simultaneous deposition of a large number of imprints of identical or different materials on the surface of the substrate using the stamp, for an analysis. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087020 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - An electronic watermarking embedding-processing section acquires layout information which specifies an embedding area of first sub information and an embedding area of second sub information in main image information. The electronic watermarking embedding-processing section performs overlapping processing for invisibly embedding the first sub information in the embedding area of the first sub information in the main image information which is specified by the layout information. The electronic watermarking embedding-processing section performs overlapping processing for invisibly embedding the second sub information in the embedding area of the second sub information in the main image information which is specified by the layout information. The electronic watermarking embedding-processing section creates composite image information by composing image information in which the first sub information is invisibly embedded in the main image information and image information in which the second sub information is invisibly embedded in the main image information. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087021 | COVERT AND ROBUST MARK FOR MEDIA IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods are described for repeatedly embedding information in media that is recoverable by emphasizing subtle variations between the media. In many embodiments perceptual models are used to identify portions of the media in which the embedded information is unlikely to be apparent to a human observer. One embodiment of the invention includes rendering the information in the form of a media, selecting a plurality of portions of media from the carrier media, combining at least part of the rendered media with each of the selected portions of the carrier media to form modified media portions, where the modifications to the modified media portions are not apparent to a human observer and creating a modified carrier medium using the modified media portions. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087022 | STAIN DETECTION SYSTEM - An image pickup unit that does not have a movable system and is fixed at one point picks up an image. A subject region extraction unit detects a subject in the image, extracts a region of the subject, and generates a region extraction image. A region extraction image storage unit holds a plurality of recent region extraction images. Then, a stain level calculation unit compares the held region extraction images for each pixel, and increases a value of the stain level of a pixel when it is highly probable that a stain is present on the pixel, and vise versa. The subject region extraction and the stain level calculation are performed each time an image is picked up, and the value is updated. A stain determination unit outputs whether or not a stain is present and the degree that the stain is present on the basis of the value. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087023 | Method and System for Detecting and Tracking Objects in Images - Invention describes a method and system for detecting and tracking an object in a sequence of images. For each image the invention determines an object descriptor from a tracking region in a current image in a sequence of images, in which the tracking region corresponds to a location of an object in a previous image. A regression function is applied to the descriptor to determine a motion of the object from the previous image to the current image, in which the motion has a matrix Lie group structure. The location of the tracking region is updated using the motion of the object. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087024 | CONTEXT PROCESSOR FOR VIDEO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for mapping a scene depicted in an acquired stream of video frames that may be used by a machine-learning behavior-recognition system. A background image of the scene is segmented into plurality of regions representing various objects of the background image. Statistically similar regions may be merged and associated. The regions are analyzed to determine their z-depth order in relation to a video capturing device providing the stream of the video frames and other regions, using occlusions between the regions and data about foreground objects in the scene. An annotated map describing the identified regions and their properties is created and updated. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087025 | Shadow and highlight detection system and method of the same in surveillance camera and recording medium thereof - A method and system for detecting a shadow region and a highlight region from a foreground region in a surveillance system, and a recording medium thereof, are provided. The system includes an image capturing unit to capture a new image, a background model unit to receive the new image and update a stored background model with the new image, a difference image obtaining unit to compare the new image with the background model and to obtain a difference image between the new image and the background model, a penumbra region extraction unit to extract a partial shadow region or a partial highlight region by measuring a sharpness of an edge of the difference image and expanding a background region, and an umbra region extraction unit to extract a complete shadow region or a complete highlight region based on the result of the extraction by the penumbra region extraction unit. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MATERIAL IDENTIFICATION USING BINOCULAR STEROSCOPIC AND MULTI-ENERGY TRANSMISSION IMAGES - The present invention provides a method and system of material identification using binocular steroscopic and multi-energy transmission image. With the method, any obstacle that dominates the ray absorption can be peeled off from the objects that overlap in the direction of a ray beam. The object that is unobvious due to a relatively small amount of ray absorption will thus stand out, and the material property of the object, such as organic, mixture, metal and the like can be identified. This method lays a fundament for automatic identification of harmful objects, such as explosive, drugs, etc., concealed in a freight container. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087027 | ESTIMATOR IDENTIFIER COMPONENT FOR BEHAVIORAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An estimator/identifier component for a computer vision engine of a machine-learning based behavior-recognition system is disclosed. The estimator/identifier component may be configured to classify an object being one of two or more classification types, e.g., as being a vehicle or a person. Once classified, the estimator/identifier may evaluate the object to determine a set of kinematic data, static data, and a current pose of the object. The output of the estimator/identifier component may include the classifications assigned to a tracked object, as well as the derived information and object attributes. | 2009-04-02 |
20090087028 | Hand Washing Monitoring System - A hand washing monitoring system ( | 2009-04-02 |