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20100197927 | Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B Inhibitor, Preparation Methods and Uses Thereof - PTP1B inhibitors with the following structure (formula I). Experiments indicate that these inhibitors can effectively inhibit the activity of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B). They can be used as insulin sensitisers. They can be used to prevent, delay or treat diseases which are related to insulin antagonism mediated by PTP1B, especially diabetes type II and obesity. The invention also provides methods for preparing these inhibitors. | 08-05-2010 |
20110021624 | Alpha-Amino-N-Substituted Amides, Pharmaceutical Composition Containing Them and Uses Thereof - Disclosed are a series of α-amino-N-substituted amide compounds having a structure of the following formula, the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and the pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. The α-amino-N-substituted amide compounds or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof according to the present invention have anti-tumor and/or anti-cancer activities in vivo and in vitro, can effectively depress the growth of various tumor cells and/or cancer cells, and thus can be used in preparing drugs for treating tumors and/or cancers. | 01-27-2011 |
20110071195 | NOVEL ALKENE OXINDOLE DERIVATIVES - The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), | 03-24-2011 |
20130131114 | NOVEL ALKENE OXINDOLE DERIVATIVES - The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), | 05-23-2013 |
20140148600 | THIAZOLE COMPOUNDS, METHODS FOR PREPARATION AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to thiazole compounds of formula I, the method for preparation and use thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel derivatives of natural product largazole, the method for preparing them and their uses for treatments against tumor and multiple sclerosis as inhibitors of histone deacetylase. | 05-29-2014 |
20140288127 | Novel Alkene Oxindole Derivatives - The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), | 09-25-2014 |
20140323466 | THIENYL [3,2-D] PYRIMIDIN-4-ONE COMPOUNDS, PREPARATION METHOD, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS AND USE THEREOF - Disclosed are new thienyl[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-one compounds shown as the general formula (I), preparation method, pharmaceutical compositions and pharmacological use thereof. The compounds are strong DPPIV (dipeptide peptidase IV) inhibitors and can treat type II diabetes through well inhibiting DPPIV indirectly increasing the content of GLP-1 in vivo and inducing a series of physiological actions in vivo. Therefore, the compounds could be developed as new promising drugs for treating diabetes. | 10-30-2014 |
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20090252437 | Image Skew Detection Apparatus And Methods - Methods and apparatus for detecting skew in a document image, such as a check image, to produce a de-skewed image are described. One example method includes detecting one or more lines in the image and determining whether the one or more lines are reliable. Reliability of a line may be based on at least one of line length, straightness, and the presence of holes in the line. If one or more lines are reliable, the method may calculate a skew angle of the image based on the one or more reliable lines' orientations with respect to an orientation of the image. A comparison may also be made between lines detected in different regions of the check to determine if a difference between skew angles corresponding to each of the compared lines is lower than an error threshold. | 10-08-2009 |
20110215151 | Method and Apparatus for Correcting Decoding Errors in Machine-Readable Symbols - The present invention is a system and method for decoding an image of a bar code. Decoding the barcode includes tokenizing a plurality of pixels in the image of the barcode based upon a plurality of thresholds to form a first set of tokens. Decoding the barcode also includes re-tokenizing the plurality of pixels in the image of the barcode based upon the intensity of the pixels in the plurality of tokens, and the relativity intensity of neighboring tokens, to form a second set of tokens. | 09-08-2011 |
20110215152 | Method and Apparatus for Creating Pixel Tokens from Machine-Readable Symbols to Improve Decoding Accuracy in Low Resolution Images - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for decoding a bar code. Decoding the bar code includes segmenting the bar code into black tokens, white tokens and gray boundary pixels. Decoding the bar code also includes calculating a boundary position of each token with sub-pixel positional accuracy using intensity values of pixels in a boundary region. | 09-08-2011 |
20110249891 | Ethnicity Classification Using Multiple Features - Frontal face images are classified into four categories such as Asian, Caucasian, African and others. A new representation of face appearance, named BITF (Block Intensity and Texture Feature), is employed as the discrimination feature. An ensemble of three component classifiers, each trained with a different number of BITF features as inputs, is designed to achieve a reliable classification. Further reliability is obtained by taking into consideration other secondary features to boost the classification performance. | 10-13-2011 |
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20080285860 | STUDYING AESTHETICS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH - The aesthetic quality of a picture is automatically inferred using visual content as a machine learning problem using, for example, a peer-rated, on-line photo sharing Website as data source. Certain visual features of images are extracted based on the intuition that they can discriminate between aesthetically pleasing and displeasing images. A one-dimensional support vector machine is used to identify features that have noticeable correlation with the community-based aesthetics ratings. Automated classifiers are constructed using the support vector machines and classification trees, with a simple feature selection heuristic being applied to eliminate irrelevant features. Linear regression on polynomial terms of the features is also applied to infer numerical aesthetics ratings. | 11-20-2008 |
20090083332 | TAGGING OVER TIME: REAL-WORLD IMAGE ANNOTATION BY LIGHTWEIGHT METALEARNING - A principled, probabilistic approach to meta-learning acts as a go-between for a ‘black-box’ image annotation system and its users. Inspired by inductive transfer, the approach harnesses available information, including the black-box model's performance, the image representations, and a semantic lexicon ontology. Being computationally ‘lightweight.’ the meta-learner efficiently re-trains over time, to improve and/or adapt to changes. The black-box annotation model is not required to be re-trained, allowing computationally intensive algorithms to be used. Both batch and online annotation settings are accommodated. A “tagging over time” approach produces progressively better annotation, significantly outperforming the black-box as well as the static form of the meta-learner, on real-world data. | 03-26-2009 |
20090204637 | REAL-TIME COMPUTERIZED ANNOTATION OF PICTURES - A computerized annotation method achieves real-time operation and better optimization properties while preserving the architectural advantages of the generative modeling approach. A novel clustering algorithm for objects is represented by discrete distributions, or bags of weighted vectors, thereby minimizing the total within cluster distance, a criterion used by the k-means algorithm. A new mixture modeling method, the hypothetical local mapping (HLM) method, is used to efficiently build a probability measure on the space of discrete distributions. Thus, in accord with the invention every image is characterized by a statistical distribution. The profiling model specifies a probability law for distributions directly. | 08-13-2009 |
20120268612 | ON-SITE COMPOSITION AND AESTHETICS FEEDBACK THROUGH EXEMPLARS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS - A comprehensive system to enhance the aesthetic quality of the photographs captured by mobile consumers provides on-site composition and aesthetics feedback through retrieved examples. Composition feedback is qualitative in nature and responds by retrieving highly aesthetic exemplar images from the corpus which are similar in content and composition to the snapshot. Color combination feedback provides confidence on the snapshot to contain good color combinations. Overall aesthetics feedback predicts the aesthetic ratings for both color and monochromatic images. An algorithm is used to provide ratings for color images, while new features and a new model are developed to treat monochromatic images. This system was designed keeping the next generation photography needs in mind and is the first of its kind. The feedback rendered is guiding and intuitive in nature. It is computed in situ while requiring minimal input from the user. | 10-25-2012 |
20130011070 | STUDYING AESTHETICS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH - The aesthetic quality of a picture is automatically inferred using visual content as a machine learning problem using, for example, a peer-rated, on-line photo sharing Website as data source. Certain visual features of images are extracted based on the intuition that they can discriminate between aesthetically pleasing and displeasing images. A one-dimensional support vector machine is used to identify features that have noticeable correlation with the community-based aesthetics ratings. Automated classifiers are constructed using the support vector machines and classification trees, with a simple feature selection heuristic being applied to eliminate irrelevant features. Linear regression on polynomial terms of the features is also applied to infer numerical aesthetics ratings. | 01-10-2013 |
20140049546 | AUTOMATICALLY COMPUTING EMOTIONS AROUSED FROM IMAGES THROUGH SHAPE MODELING - Shape features in natural images influence emotions aroused in human beings. An in-depth statistical analysis helps to understand the relationship between shapes and emotions. Through experimental results on the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) dataset, evidence is presented as to the significance of roundness-angularity and simplicity-complexity on predicting emotional content in images. Shape features are combined with other state-of-the-art features to show a gain in prediction and classification accuracy. Emotions are modeled from a dimensional perspective in order to predict valence and arousal ratings, which have advantages over modeling the traditional discrete emotional categories. Images are distinguished vis-a-vis strong emotional content from emotionally neutral images with high accuracy. | 02-20-2014 |
20140143251 | MASSIVE CLUSTERING OF DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS - The trend of analyzing big data in artificial intelligence requires more scalable machine learning algorithms, among which clustering is a fundamental and arguably the most widely applied method. To extend the applications of regular vector-based clustering algorithms, the Discrete Distribution (D2) clustering algorithm has been developed for clustering bags of weighted vectors which are well adopted in many emerging machine learning applications. The high computational complexity of D2-clustering limits its impact in solving massive learning problems. Here we present a parallel D2-clustering algorithm with substantially improved scalability. We develop a hierarchical structure for parallel computing in order to achieve a balance between the individual-node computation and the integration process of the algorithm. The parallel algorithm achieves significant speed-up with minor accuracy loss. | 05-22-2014 |
20140307958 | INSTANCE-WEIGHTED MIXTURE MODELING TO ENHANCE TRAINING COLLECTIONS FOR IMAGE ANNOTATION - Automatic selection of training images is enhanced using an instance-weighted mixture modeling framework called ARTEMIS. An optimization algorithm is derived that in addition to mixture parameter estimation learns instance-weights, essentially adapting to the noise associated with each example. The mechanism of hypothetical local mapping is evoked so that data in diverse mathematical forms or modalities can be cohesively treated as the system maintains tractability in optimization. Training examples are selected from top-ranked images of a likelihood-based image ranking. Experiments indicate that ARTEMIS exhibits higher resilience to noise than several baselines for large training data collection. The performance of ARTEMIS-trained image annotation system is comparable to using manually curated datasets. | 10-16-2014 |
20140363085 | On-site composition and aesthetics feedback through exemplars for photographers - A comprehensive system to enhance the aesthetic quality of the photographs captured by mobile consumers provides on-site composition and aesthetics feedback through retrieved examples. Composition feedback is qualitative in nature and responds by retrieving highly aesthetic exemplar images from the corpus which are similar in content and composition to the snapshot. Color combination feedback provides confidence on the snapshot to contain good color combinations. Overall aesthetics feedback predicts the aesthetic ratings for both color and monochromatic images. An algorithm is used to provide ratings for color images, while new features and a new model are developed to treat monochromatic images. This system was designed keeping the next generation photography needs in mind and is the first of its kind. The feedback rendered is guiding and intuitive in nature. It is computed in situ while requiring minimal input from the user. | 12-11-2014 |
20150332117 | COMPOSITION MODELING FOR PHOTO RETRIEVAL THROUGH GEOMETRIC IMAGE SEGMENTATION - A composition model is developed based on the image segmentation and the vanishing point of the scene. By integrating both photometric and geometric cues, better segmentation is provided. These cues are directly used to detect the dominant vanishing point in an image without extracting any line segments. Based on the composition model, a novel image retrieval system is developed which can retrieve images with similar compositions as the query image from a collection of images and provide feedback to photographers. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332118 | AUTOMATICALLY COMPUTING EMOTIONS AROUSED FROM IMAGES THROUGH SHAPE MODELING - Shape features in natural images influence emotions aroused in human beings. An in-depth statistical analysis helps to understand the relationship between shapes and emotions. Through experimental results on the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) dataset, evidence is presented as to the significance of roundness-angularity and simplicity-complexity on predicting emotional content in images. Shape features are combined with other state-of-the-art features to show a gain in prediction and classification accuracy. Emotions are modeled from a dimensional perspective in order to predict valence and arousal ratings, which have advantages over modeling the traditional discrete emotional categories. Images are distinguished vis-a-vis strong emotional content from emotionally neutral images with high accuracy. All of the methods and steps disclosed herein are implemented on a programmed digital computer, which may be a stand-alone machine or integrated into another piece of equipment such as a digital still or video camera including, in all embodiments, portable devices such as smart phones. | 11-19-2015 |
20160104059 | IDENTIFYING VISUAL STORM SIGNATURES FROM SATELLITE IMAGES - Satellite images from vast historical archives are analyzed to predict severe storms. We extract and summarize important visual storm evidence from satellite image sequences in a way similar to how meteorologists interpret these images. The method extracts and fits local cloud motions from image sequences to model the storm-related cloud patches. Image data of an entire year are adopted to train the model. The historical storm reports since the year 2000 are used as the ground-truth and statistical priors in the modeling process. Experiments demonstrate the usefulness and potential of the algorithm for producing improved storm forecasts. A preferred method applies cloud motion estimation in image sequences. This aspect of the invention is important because it extracts and models certain patterns of cloud motion, in addition to capturing the cloud displacement. | 04-14-2016 |
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20120085306 | STARTER MOTOR - A starter motor for an internal combustion engine has an electric motor, a shaft driven by the motor, and a pinion assembly arranged to engage a flywheel of the engine. The pinion assembly has a drive collar mounted to a helical spline of the shaft, an output gear and an elastic member disposed between the drive collar and the output gear. A connection shell prevents axial separation between the drive collar and the output gear. The elastic member prevents direct contact between the connection shell and at least one and possibly both of the drive collar and the output gear. | 04-12-2012 |
20130101209 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION AND ASSOCIATION OF OBJECT OF INTEREST IN VIDEO - The present disclosure relates to an image and video processing method, and in particular, to a two-phase-interaction-based extraction and association method for an object of interest in a video. In the method, a user performs coarse positioning interaction by an interactive method which is not limited to a normal manner and has a low requirement for prior knowledge; based on this, a certain extraction algorithm which is fast and easy to implement is adopted to perform multi-parameter extraction on the object of interest. In the method, on the basis of mining video information fully and ensuring user preference, in a manner where the viewing of the user is not affected, associate value-added information with the object which the user is interested in, thereby meeting the user's requirement for deeply knowing and further exploring an attention area. | 04-25-2013 |
20140015983 | MONITORING APPARATUS FOR TELEVISION - A monitoring apparatus includes a detection circuit, a filter circuit, an amplifying circuit, a regulation circuit, a delay and charging circuit, and a driving circuit. The detection circuit receives a video signal, and performs an operation to obtain an image signal from the video signal. The filter circuit obtains an average intensity of a luminance signal corresponding to the image signal. The delay and charging circuit charges an input capacitor when receiving a low level regulated signal from the amplifying circuit. The driving circuit activates an alarm when a charging voltage of the chargeable capacitor exceeds a predetermined value. | 01-16-2014 |
20140122794 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR HARD DISKS - A control circuit is connected between a motherboard and a number of hard disks for controlling power and data transmission of the number of hard disks. Each hard disk corresponds to one power control unit and one data control unit. The power control unit controls power transmission to the corresponding hard disk. The data control unit controls data transmission of the corresponding hard disk. When one hard disk is selected as an operation object to enter a disable state, the data control unit cuts off data transmission of the selected hard disk before the power control unit cuts off power transmission of the operation object. When the hard disk is selected as an operation object to enter an enable state, the power control unit resets the power transmission to the operation object before the data control unit resets data transmission of the operation object. | 05-01-2014 |
20140175904 | WIRELESS SWITCHING CIRCUIT - A wireless switching circuit includes a charging capacitor, a voltage converter, an infrared sensor unit, a single chip microcomputer (SCM), a zero trigger circuit, and a thyristor. The charging capacitor is used to store and supply power. The voltage converter is used to convert alternating current (AC) voltage into direct current (DC) voltage to charge the charging capacitor. The infrared sensor unit is used to output control signals according to sensed infrared signals. The SCM outputs a trigger signal according to the control signals from the infrared sensor unit. Input ends of the zero trigger circuit are connected to the SCM to receive the trigger signal. An anode and a cathode of the thyristor is connected to a power supply line for the socket. A control end of the thyristor is connected to an output end of the zero trigger circuit. | 06-26-2014 |
20150153219 | SWING-TYPE SENSOR ASSEMBLY - The present disclosure discloses a swing-type sensor assembly, comprising a support and a sensor vibrator. The support is provided with a pin shaft, and the sensor vibrator is connected to the pin shaft and capable of swinging about the pin shaft. The support is further connected to an air pipe, which is capable of blowing air towards the sensor vibrator. The air pipe is provided with a control valve, an inlet of which is connected, via a pipe, to a supply for clean and dry compressed air. The swing-type sensor assembly saves the sensor vibrator from easy adhesion, thus ensuring a restoring force thereof. | 06-04-2015 |
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20120239045 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS FOR TOTAL ANKLE ARTHROPLASTY - Patient-specific instruments for preparing bones for receipt of orthopedic prostheses, such as the distal tibia and the talus in a total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) procedure. A tibial guide and a talar guide are manufactured based on patient-specific anatomical data obtained using imaging technology, and each guide includes a surface conforming to selected anatomical surfaces or regions of the tibia or talus, respectively. Each guide includes at least one cut referencing surface, such as a cut slot, to guide a resection, and may also include a guide aperture sized to guide a reaming tool for reaming the distal tibia or talus. The guides may also include pin holes positioned within a periphery defined by the cut referencing surfaces such that, when the resections are made and the resected tibial bone portion or talus bone portion is removed, the guide and its associated pins are removed along with the resected bone portion. The guides may be designed to ensure that a proximal resected surface of the distal tibia is parallel to a resected surface of the talus, with the parallel resected surfaces perpendicular to the anatomical axis of the distal tibia. | 09-20-2012 |
20120310364 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC MANUFACTURING OF POROUS METAL PROSTHESES - A patient-specific porous metal prosthesis and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The orthopaedic prosthesis may be metallic to provide adequate strength and stability. Also, the orthopaedic prosthesis may be porous to promote bone ingrowth. | 12-06-2012 |
20130018483 | RAPID MANUFACTURING OF POROUS METAL PROSTHESES - An orthopaedic prosthesis and a method for rapidly manufacturing the same are provided. The orthopaedic prosthesis includes a solid bearing layer, a porous bone-ingrowth layer, and an interdigitating layer therebetween. A laser sintering technique is performed to manufacture the orthopaedic prosthesis. | 01-17-2013 |
20130110250 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING SOFT TISSUE BALANCE FOR KNEE ARTHROPLASTY | 05-02-2013 |
20130191085 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING PATIENT-SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION FOR CHONDRAL GRAFT TRANSFER - A system for creating a patient-specific instrument model for chondral graft plugging comprises a bone model generator for producing a bone/cartilage model of an articular region of a bone from images thereof. A defect geometry identifier identifies a graft geometry from a defect region of said bone/cartilage model. A donor locator locates an autograft at a donor site or identifies an allograft from a database, using said bone/cartilage model and the graft geometry. A patient-specific instrument model generator creates a model of a graft-plugging patient-specific instrument from said bone/cartilage model, and the graft geometry, the graft-plugging patient-specific instrument model comprising a bone/cartilage interface surface shaped as a function of the bone/cartilage model for the at least one graft-plugging patient-specific instrument to be selectively positioned on the bone/cartilage to pose the autograft or the allograft at the defect region. | 07-25-2013 |
20140012273 | CONDYLE AXIS LOCATOR - An apparatus and methods for locating the axis of rotation of one or more condyles are disclosed. A condyle axis locator can include a first concave member, a second concave member, and a handle extending between the first and second concave members. The first and second concave members can include first and second locating members, respectively, extending from a surface of the first and second concave members. The first and second locating members can each include at least one opening for receiving a marking instrument. A method for locating the axis of rotation of a condyle can include positioning a first longitudinal bone in flexion relative to an adjacent second longitudinal bone, placing one of the concave members of the condyle axis locator under the condyle, and inserting a marking instrument in the opening of the locating member to mark the axis of rotation of the condyle. | 01-09-2014 |
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20130010286 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF DIFFERENTIAL CONFOCAL AND INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT FOR MULTIPLE PARAMETERS OF AN ELEMENT - The present invention relates to the field of optical precision measurement technologies, and in particular, to a method and a device of differential confocal (confocal) and interference measurement for multiple parameters of an element. The core concept of the invention lies in that: the concurrent high-precision measurement of multiple parameters of an element may be realized by measuring the surface curvature radius of an element with spherical surface, the back focal length of a lens, the refractive index of a lens, the thickness of a lens and the axial spaces of an assembled lenses by using a differential confocal (confocal) measuring system and measuring the surface profile of the element by using a figure interference measuring system. In the invention, a differential confocal (confocal) detection system and a figure interference measuring system are combined for the first time, the method covers more measured parameters, and during the measurement of multiple parameters of an element, it is not essential to readjust the optical path or disassemble the test element, thus no damage will be caused on the test element, and the measurement speed will be fast. | 01-10-2013 |
20130044679 | System and Methods for Handling an IP Dual-Stack Connection - In a mobile device operative in a packet switched wireless network, the control logic for handling the PS connection resides inside the modem part of the device when dual-stack operation is required (e.g., PDN connections having PDN types IPv4 and IPv6). This effectively hides how dual-stack IPv4v6 connectivity is implemented towards the relevant 3GPP network. Further, the modem always only uses one and only one network interface, as seen from the IP stack, when it operates in dual-stack mode, regardless of how the underlying PDN connection(s) are set up. | 02-21-2013 |
20130094756 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT PUSH BASED ON USER INTEREST LEARNING - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a system for personalized advertisement push based on user interest learning. The method may include: obtaining multiple user interest models through multitask sorting learning; extracting an object of interest in a video according to the user interest models; and extracting multiple visual features of the object of interest, and according to the visual features, retrieving related advertising information in an advertisement database. Through the method and the system provided in embodiments of the present invention, a push advertisement may be closely relevant to the content of the video, thereby meeting personalized requirements of a user to a certain extent and achieving personalized advertisement push. | 04-18-2013 |
20140050333 | Data Processing Method And An Electronic Apparatus - A data processing method and an electronic apparatus are described. The hand-held electronic apparatus has a microphone array that includes at least two kinds of usage modes. The microphone array is in a first usage mode of the at least two kinds of usage modes when the hand-held electronic apparatus is in a first usage status. The method includes receiving an adjustment signal to adjust the hand-held electronic apparatus from the first usage status to a second usage status, wherein, the second usage status is different from the first usage status; obtaining a control command when the hand-held electronic apparatus is adjusted to the second usage status; adjusting the microphone array from the first usage mode to the second usage mode according to, wherein, the second usage mode is different from the first usage mode and corresponds to the second usage status. | 02-20-2014 |
20140192381 | LAYOUT INFORMATION CALIBRATING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention provides a layout information calibrating method and device, wherein the calibrating method comprises: obtaining the parameter calibrating standard of layout information and layout information to be calibrated; matching the layout information to be calibrated with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information; if the layout information to be calibrated is consistent with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information, sending the information indicating the layout information is successfully calibrated; if the layout information to be calibrated is inconsistent with the parameter calibrating standard of the layout information, sending a reminder indicating the layout information is not successfully calibrated. Adopting the layout information calibrating method and device submitted in the present invention, it is possible to not only effectively avoid calibrating mistakes in the layout production process, but also reduce layout production accidents, accelerate the whole production schedule of the newspaper. | 07-10-2014 |
20140193044 | PAGE PROOFREADING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for page proofreading, the method comprising: splitting a document before modification to at least one single page document file before modification and splitting a document after modification to at least one single page document file after modification; adding the at least one single page document before modification into a first page, adding the at least one single page document after modification into a second page; setting correlativity between each of the single page documents before modification in the first page and each of the single page documents after modification in the second page; comparing pixel elements of the previews of the single page document before modification and the single page document after modification for all of the first pages and the second pages that correlated with each other; if there are different parts, displaying the comparison result by marking the different parts. | 07-10-2014 |
20150062599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING INK SAVING AMOUNT - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for calculating ink saving amount. The method comprises: generating, using an ink-saving solution, first cyan, magenta, yellow and black bitmap files that correspond to a printing layout; generating, using a non-ink-saving solution, second cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files that correspond to the printing layout; calculating dot percentages of all the bitmap files; calculating percentages of saving amount of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks according to the dot percentages of the first cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files, and the second cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bitmap files. | 03-05-2015 |
20150140758 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING FINFET ON GERMANIUM OR GROUP III-V SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE - The present invention provides a method for fabricating a FinFET on a germanium or group III-V semiconductor substrate. The process flow of the method mainly includes: forming a pattern structure for a source, a drain and a fine bar connecting the source and the drain; forming an oxide isolation layer; forming a gate structure, a source and a drain structure; and forming metal contacts and metal interconnections. The method may allow an easy fabrication of a FinFET on a germanium or group III-V semiconductor substrate, and the entire process flow is similar to a conventional silicon-based integrated circuit fabrication technology despite it is achieved based on the germanium or group III-V semiconductor material. The fabrication process is simple, convenient and has a short period. In addition, the FinFET fabricated by the above process flow has a minimum width that can be controlled to about 20 nm. The multi-gate structure can provide excellent gate control capacity, which is very suitable for fabricating an ultra-short channel device so as to further reduce the device size. Further, the FinFET fabricated by the present invention has lower power consumption. | 05-21-2015 |
20150206752 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING A THRESHOLD VOLTAGE OF A MULTI-GATE STRUCTURE DEVICE - The present invention discloses a method of adjusting a threshold voltage of a multi-gate structure device, wherein, preparing the multi-gate structure device to be formed to have a channel impurity distribution with high doping on surface and lowly doping inside, where while a threshold voltage is adjusted by using impurity doping, the influences of the Coulomb impurity scattering on the carriers is reduced as much as possible, so that the mobility of the carriers is maintained at a higher level. Firstly, the present solution is able to make a multi-gate device obtain a larger range of a multi-threshold voltage; it is convenient for the various demands of the device in the circuit designing by IC designers. Secondly, in the course of introducing the impurity doping to adjust a threshold voltage, the influences of the Coulomb impurity scattering on the channel carrier are reduced as much as possible, so that the mobility of the charge carriers is maintained at a higher level, and the device is ensured to have a higher drive current. Finally, the present solution is achieved by the process method compatible with a conventional CMOS, and has the potential for a large scale production. | 07-23-2015 |
20150236130 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING FINFET WITH SEPARATED DOUBLE GATES ON BULK SILICON - Disclosed herein is a method for fabricating a FinFET with separated double gates on a bulk silicon, comprising: forming a pattern for a source, a drain and a thin bar connecting the source and the drain; forming an oxidation isolation layer; forming a gate structure and a source/drain structure; and forming a metal contact and a metal interconnection. By means of the method herein, it is very easy to fabricate the FinFET with separated double gates on the bulk silicon wafer, and the overall process flow is completely compatible with the conventional silicon-based very large scale integrated circuit manufacturing technology. Thus, the method herein is simple, convenient and has a short process period, greatly economizing the cost of the silicon wafer. In addition, by employing the FinFET with separated double gates fabricated by the method according to the invention, the short channel effect can be effectively suppressed. Further, the power consumption of the device can be further reduced through the special multi-threshold characteristic of the device with separated double gates. | 08-20-2015 |
20150294608 | METHOD FOR DETECTING BRIGHT SPOT OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for detecting a bright spot of a liquid crystal display panel, which belongs to the field of display. The method can solve a technical problem of miss detecting by the bright spot detection method in the prior art which o can not detect a bright spot caused by the short circuit between a data line and a pixel electrode. The method for detecting a bright spot of a liquid crystal display panel comprises: scanning gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel, and simultaneously outputting low level signals by data lines of the liquid crystal display panel; and, stopping the scanning of the gate lines of the liquid crystal display panel, and simultaneously outputting high level signals by the data lines. The method may be used for detecting liquid crystal display panels of ADS type. | 10-15-2015 |
20160064529 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING MULTI-GATE STRUCTURE DEVICE WITH SOURCE AND DRAIN HAVING QUASI-SOI STRUCTURE - A method for fabricating a multi-gate structure device with a source and a drain having a quasi-SOI structure, comprising forming an active region in a shape of a fin bar, forming an oxide isolation layer for shallow trench isolation (STI), forming a polysilicon dummy gate, forming source and drain extension regions, forming the source and the drain with the quasi-SOI structure, and forming a high-K metal gate. Solution(s) consistent with the present innovations may be achieved by using a process method compatible with the conventional bulk silicon CMOS processes and can be easily integrated into the process flow. Moreover, innovations here may provide a small leakage current even in a case of having a short channel length, thereby reducing the power consumption of the device. | 03-03-2016 |
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20140314313 | VISUAL CLOTHING RETRIEVAL - Techniques are provided for efficiently identifying relevant product images based on product items detected in a query image. In general, a query image may represent a digital image in any format that depicts a human body and one or more product items. For example, a query image may be an image for display on a webpage, an image captured by a user using a camera device, or an image that is part of a media content item, such as a frame from a video. Product items may be detected in a query image by segmenting the query image into a plurality of image segments and clustering one or more of the plurality image segments into one or more image segment clusters. The resulting image segments and image segment clusters may be used to search for visually similar product images. | 10-23-2014 |
20140363075 | IMAGE-BASED FACETED SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is a system and method that facilitate searching and/or browsing of images by clustering, or grouping, the images into a set of image clusters using facets, such as without limitation visual properties or visual characteristics, of the images, and representing each image cluster by a representative image selected for the image cluster. A map-reduce based probabilistic topic model may be used to identify one or more images belonging to each image cluster and update model parameters. | 12-11-2014 |
20150032535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT BASED SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND MONETIZATION THEREOF - Disclosed is a system and method for automatically detecting social relationships from consumer image collections. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability to infer relationships between people thereby creating dynamic social networks from the occurrences of people appearing in digital images. Occurrences of people in pictures can be detected based on known or to be known facial recognition technology. These inferences enable relationship determinations regarding whether the people are family members, friends, acquaintances or merely strangers who happen to be in the same place at the same time. The disclosed detection of such relationships enables the building of intelligent image management systems. Furthermore, based on the detected social relationships, advertisements can be served not solely to a single person, but to multiple people within the scope of the social relationship | 01-29-2015 |
20150261752 | PERSONALIZED CRITERIA-BASED MEDIA ORGANIZATION - Personalized criteria-based media organization is provided. Digital media items are organized into one or more albums. At least one album is associated with album membership criteria and includes only digital media items that satisfy the album membership criteria. An album is updated by receiving user input identifying at least one criteria creation element, generating user-defined album membership criteria based on the at least one criteria creation element, identifying any matching digital media items that satisfy the user-defined album membership criteria, and associating the matching digital media items with the album. | 09-17-2015 |
20150262037 | VISUAL RECOGNITION USING SOCIAL LINKS - System, method and architecture for providing improved visual recognition by modeling visual content, semantic content and an implicit social network representing individuals depicted in a collection of content, such as visual images, photographs, etc. which network may be determined based on co-occurrences of individuals represented by the content, and/or other data linking the individuals. In accordance with one or more embodiments, using images as an example, a relationship structure may comprise an implicit structure, or network, determined from co-occurrences of individuals in the images. A kernel jointly modeling content, semantic and social network information may be built and used in automatic image annotation and/or determination of relationships between individuals, for example. | 09-17-2015 |
20160005097 | ON-LINE PRODUCT RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS - Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate or support one or more processes and/or operations for one or more on-line recommendations, such as product-related recommendations, for example. | 01-07-2016 |
20160094774 | MOBILE DEVICE IMAGE ACQUISITION USING OBJECTS OF INTEREST RECOGNITION - An approach is provided for acquiring images with camera-enabled mobile devices using objects of interest recognition. A mobile device is configured to acquire an image represented by image data and process the image data to identify a plurality of candidate objects of interest in the image. The plurality of candidate objects of interest may be identified based upon a plurality of low level features or “cues” in the image data. Example cues include, without limitation, color contrast, edge density and superpixel straddling. A particular candidate object of interest is selected from the plurality of candidate objects of interest and a graphical symbol is displayed on a screen of the mobile device to identify the particular candidate object of interest. The particular candidate object of interest may be located anywhere on the image. Passive auto focusing is performed at the location of the particular candidate object of interest. | 03-31-2016 |
20160110794 | E-COMMERCE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed herein is item recommender that uses a model trained using a combination of at least visual item similarity training data and social activity training data. The model may be used, for example, to identify a set of recommended products having similar visual features as a given product. The set of recommended products may be presented to the user along with the given product. The model may be continuously updated using feedback from users to identify the features considered to be important to the users relative to other features. | 04-21-2016 |