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20140156396 | TECHNIQUES IN TRANSIT ADVERTISING - Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed for providing messages based on an identified ridership pattern of a user of a transit system. Embodiments can include receiving information associated with a plurality of transactions of the user of the transit system, and identifying a ridership pattern of the user of the transit system. A predicted time and duration that the user of the transit system will be at a predicted location can be determined based, at least in part, on the identified ridership pattern. A message can be formulated using this information, and the message can be sent to the user or other message subscriber. Messages can include a variety of information, including advertisements, transit status updates, and more. | 06-05-2014 |
20140350979 | MULTI-MODAL JOURNEY PLANNING AND PAYMENT - Techniques are disclosed for providing trip planning and associated payment of a trip involving multiple modes of transportation (i.e., “multi-modal trip planning”). Embodiments can enable a user to plan a multi-modal journey on an electronic device, and pay for products (tolls, tickets, etc.) associated with the journey on the same electronic device, or a different electronic device. Embodiments can also allow for re-planning a journey, providing for an alternative route when current information regarding an original route suggests the alternate route would be advisable. Payment for products associated with the alternate route can be provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20150317841 | FARE EVASION DETECTION USING VIDEO ANALYTICS - Systems and techniques are presented for detecting fare evasion at a paid entry gate. A video feed is received from a video camera aimed at an area that includes the paid entry gate. The video feed is analyzed to detect a specific event. Fare collection data is received from a fare collection device. The fare collection device is located at the paid entry gate and configured to collect fare for passage through the paid entry gate. A determination is made that a proper fare has not been collected for the specific event based on the fare collection data. An alert is generated indicating that fare evasion is detected in response to determining that the proper fare has not been collected for the specific event. | 11-05-2015 |
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20090236921 | DRIVE UNIT - A drive unit in particular for an actuating element of a motor vehicle, is described, which has a gear mechanism unit, a drive motor and a contacting unit, with the gear mechanism unit encompassing a first interface for a detachable attachment of the drive motor and a second interface for the detachable attachment of the contacting unit, and with the drive motor being energized by the contacting unit in the mounted condition. The interfaces of the gear mechanism unit are designed to energize the drive motor through the contacting unit, and a rotary sensor that can contact the contacting unit and can detect the rotation of a gear mechanism rotating element (for example 6) is provided. Such a drive unit is very flexible with regard to the applicable control- and/or regulating electronic system. | 09-24-2009 |
20110063530 | DISPLAY DEVICE IN A MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to a display device in a motor vehicle, comprising an adjustable screen and adjustment kinematics associated with the screen. The adjustment kinematics comprise an adjustment drive having a drive motor for the screen, the screen being adjustable between a parking position and a functional position by means of the adjustment drive. The adjustment drive has a driver and is drive-coupled to the screen via the driver, a displacement guide being provided and the drive being guided by means of the displacement guide. The invention is characterized in that the adjustment drive and the displacement guide form a pre-assembled structural unit which as such can be coupled to the rest of the adjustment kinematics during final assembly. | 03-17-2011 |
20110094370 | SYNTHETIC FIBER ROPE WITH COUPLING ELEMENT - A synthetic fiber rope with coupling element for transmitting an adjustment force to an adjustable part to be connected to the rope via the coupling element is provided. The coupling element is attached to the rope as an element separate from the rope. The coupling element at least partly engages in the interior of the rope and there engages behind rope components made of synthetic fibers, wherein the coupling element completely reaches through the rope transverse to its local direction of extension and protrudes beyond the outer surface of the rope. A base of the coupling element resting against the outer surface of the rope and extending along a portion of the outer surface of the rope. A succeeding component is attached to the coupling element in that it is press-fitted with the coupling element, such that material of the succeeding component is deformed and rope components being compacted in the region of the coupling element. | 04-28-2011 |
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20150043806 | AUTOMATIC GEOMETRY AND LIGHTING INFERENCE FOR REALISTIC IMAGE EDITING - Image editing techniques are disclosed that support a number of physically-based image editing tasks, including object insertion and relighting. The techniques can be implemented, for example in an image editing application that is executable on a computing system. In one such embodiment, the editing application is configured to compute a scene from a single image, by automatically estimating dense depth and diffuse reflectance, which respectively form the geometry and surface materials of the scene. Sources of illumination are then inferred, conditioned on the estimated scene geometry and surface materials and without any user input, to form a complete 3D physical scene model corresponding to the image. The scene model may include estimates of the geometry, illumination, and material properties represented in the scene, and various camera parameters. Using this scene model, objects can be readily inserted and composited into the input image with realistic lighting, shadowing, and perspective. | 02-12-2015 |
20150310135 | 4D VIZUALIZATION OF BUILDING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION MODELING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS - A system and method are disclosed for, using structure-from-motion techniques, projecting a building information model (BIM) into images from photographs taken of a construction site, to generate a 3D point cloud model using the BIM and, when combined with scheduling constraints, facilitates 4D visualizations and progress monitoring. One of the images acts as an anchor image. Indications are received of first points in the anchor image that correspond to second points in the BIM. Calibration information for an anchor camera is calculated based on the indications and on metadata extracted from the anchor image, to register the anchor image in relation to the BIM. A homography transformation is determined between the images and the anchor camera using the calibration information, to register the rest of the images with the BIM, where some of those images are taken from different cameras and from different angles to the construction site. | 10-29-2015 |
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20130147798 | INSERTING OBJECTS INTO CONTENT - An image into which one or more objects are to be inserted is obtained. Based on the image, both a 3-dimensional (3D) representation and a light model of the scene in the image are generated. One or more objects are added to the 3D representation of the scene. The 3D representation of the scene is rendered, based on the light model, to generate a modified image that is the obtained image modified to include the one or more objects. | 06-13-2013 |
20130187910 | CONVERSION OF A DIGITAL STEREO IMAGE INTO MULTIPLE VIEWS WITH PARALLAX FOR 3D VIEWING WITHOUT GLASSES - A method for generating additional views from a stereo image defined by a left eye image and a right eye image. The method includes receiving as input at least one stereo image. The method includes, for each of the stereo images, generating a plurality of additional images. The method includes interlacing the additional images for each of the stereo images to generate three dimensional (3D) content made up of multiple views of the scenes presented by each of the stereo images. The interlacing may be performed such that the generated 3D content is displayable on a 3D display device including a barrier grid or a lenticular lens array on the monitor screen. The additional images may include 12 to 40 or more frames providing views of the one or more scenes from differing viewing angles than provided by the left and right cameras used to generate the original stereo image. | 07-25-2013 |
20150302563 | Relighting Fragments for Insertion into Content - A fragment is relit for insertion into a target scene of an image by obtaining a fragment model for the fragment. A set of detail maps for the fragment model are generated, each of which encodes fine-scale shading effects from the surface detail of the fragment. A target scene model is obtained for the target scene, and the fragment model is inserted into the target scene model. The target scene model with inserted fragment model is rendered, and a composited target scene is generated. A modified target scene is generated by combining the composited target scene and the set of detail maps. Weights assigned to the different detail maps can be changed by the user, allowing the modified target scene to be readily altered without re-rendering the target scene model with the inserted fragment model. | 10-22-2015 |
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20090206097 | FUEL TANK FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE OF THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL - The invention relates to a thermoplastic fuel tank ( | 08-20-2009 |
20090320805 | HEATER FOR FLUIDS - To improve environmental protection from hydrocarbon emissions particularly from vehicles a heater for fluids comprising heating elements of an electrically conductive monolith, wherein the heater comprises a passageway for the fluid to be heated with a defined flow direction of the fluid during heating operation, the heater comprising at least two heating elements arranged side by side inside the passageway, so that they are arranged in parallel with respect to the fluid flow, is proposed improved in that one of the at least two heating elements is a controlled heating element, which has a slightly larger heating power, and a temperature sensor is provided at or close to the downstream end of the controlled heating element, and wherein the temperature sensor is connected to a control means for temperature control during heating operation of the heater; and a method of operating such | 12-31-2009 |
20090320806 | FUEL VAPOR STORAGE AND RECOVERY APPARATUS - A fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus includes a fuel vapor storage canister, said fuel vapor storage canister comprising at least first and second vapor storage compartments filled with an absorbent material, for instance filled with activated carbon, at least a vapor inlet port, an atmospheric vent port and a purge port. Said fuel vapor storage canister defines an air flow path between said vapor inlet port and said atmospheric vent port during shut-off of the internal combustion engine of the vehicle. During purging cycles there is defined an air flow path between said atmospheric vent port and said purge port wherein said first and second vapor storage compartments are arranged in concentric relationship and wherein said first and second vapor storage compartments in flow direction are separated from each other by an air gap diffusion barrier. | 12-31-2009 |
20110139129 | FUEL VAPOR STORAGE AND RECOVERY APPARATUS - A fuel vapor storage and recovery apparatus includes a fuel vapor storage canister, said fuel vapor storage canister comprising at least first and second vapor storage compartments filled with an absorbent material, for instance filled with activated carbon, at least a vapor inlet port, an atmospheric vent port and a purge port. Said fuel vapor storage canister defines an air flow path between said vapor inlet port and said atmospheric vent port during shut-off of the internal combustion engine of the vehicle. During purging cycles there is defined an air flow path between said atmospheric vent port and said purge port wherein said first and second vapor storage compartments are arranged in concentric relationship and wherein said first and second vapor storage compartments in flow direction are separated from each other by an air gap diffusion barrier. | 06-16-2011 |
20130193139 | FUEL TANK OF PLASTIC AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention concerns a fuel tank of plastic with a multilayered tank wall comprising at least one inner layer of thermoplastic material and at least one outer layer of a fibre composite material. The inner layer and the outer layer are connected to each other by a material bond. | 08-01-2013 |
20130228572 | FUEL TANK MADE OF THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL - The invention concerns a fuel tank made of thermoplastic material with at least one sheet-like stiffening element ( | 09-05-2013 |
20140014663 | FUEL TANK OF THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FUEL TANK - The invention relates to a fuel tank of thermoplastic polymer for a motor vehicle, having at least one reinforcing element inside the fuel tank, the reinforcing element inside the fuel tank extending between opposing tank walls ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140326732 | OPERATING FLUID TANK FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention relates to an operating fluid tank ( | 11-06-2014 |
20150083719 | EXTRUSION-BLOW-MOLDED FUEL TANK OF THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to an extrusion-blow-molded fuel tank ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150232226 | CONTAINER OF THERMOPLASTIC MATERIAL - The invention relates to a container ( | 08-20-2015 |