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20150277711 | USER INTERACTION AND MOTION DRIVING UPDATES TO COMPONENTS IN AN IMMERSIVE DOCUMENT VIEW - User interaction with components and content items provided in an immersive information and document view is provided. When a user receives an electronic communication, for example, an electronic mail item having an attached content item, the content item may be selectively displayed in an immersive view pane displayed in an electronic communications user interface. The immersive view pane may be animated into display for effect. If two or more attachments are received, the attachments may be displayed in an attachment well. Display of various attached content items may be provided via a number of navigation methods. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277722 | IMMERSIVE DOCUMENT INTERACTION WITH DEVICE-AWARE SCALING - An adaptive layout and workflow engine. The adaptive layout and workflow engine allows various applications to dynamically render scaled views of content based on the characteristics of the display on the device being used to consume the content. The adaptive layout and workflow engine may select an appropriate view of the content to render based on the size, resolution, or aspect ratio of the display. The rendered size of the content and/or the user interface of the content application is evaluated relative to the characteristics of the display. Embodiments may provide different controls via the user interfaces based on the characteristics of the display and/or content. The adaptive layout and workflow engine may provide customized work flows via the user interface to improve the user experience depending on the display capabilities of the device used to consume the content. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277724 | INLINE DOCUMENT COLLABORATION WORKFLOW - Inline document collaboration workflows are provided. When a user receives an electronic communication that includes an attached content item, the receiving user may select the attached content item and cause the attached content item to be displayed in an immersive view in proximity to an electronic communication pane in which an electronic communication may be conducted about any topic including the content item that is displayed in proximity to the electronic communication pane. During editing of a content item, an electronic communication may be generated from a user interface in which the content item is being generated, or alternatively a new content item may be generated out of an electronic communications user interface. | 10-01-2015 |
20150277725 | COLLABORATIVE CO-AUTHORING VIA AN ELECTRONIC USER INTERFACE - Automatic uploading of electronic communication attachments to a collaborative storage location for enabling efficient co-authoring among a group of users is provided. When an electronic communication item is received that contains an attached content item, a user may select the content item for review and/or editing. A communication (e.g., a responsive email message) may be automatically created and may include an attachment pointer to direct recipients of the communication to the location at which the edited content item will be stored at a collaborative group storage location. The communication may also include a posting for notifying recipients of the communication that the associated content item has been edited and by whom the content item was edited. Recipients of the communication may then locate the edited content item and may begin reviewing and/or editing the stored content item in a collaborative co-authoring environment. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281148 | IMMERSIVE DOCUMENT VIEW - Immersive document view and use in an electronic communications user interface are provided. If an electronic communications conversation is presented in an electronic communications pane or canvas, a user may navigate through the electronic communications items while a selected content item is maintained in a displayed state in an immersive view pane. The electronic communications conversation thread may be oriented such that oldest communication items are presented at the top, followed by next newer conversation items, and so on. A pop-out function may be provided wherein an editing experience for a selected content item may be popped out into a secondary user interface window in a partially or completely overlaying fashion over a user interface display window containing the components of the electronic communications user interface. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281149 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION-BASED STORAGE OF DOCUMENTS TO SUPPORT MULTIPLE WORKFLOWS - Electronic communication-based storage of content items to support multiple workflows is provided. When an attached content item is received with an electronic communication, a receiving user may select the attached content item for review and editing in an immersive view pane that may be launched adjacent to or in proximity to an electronic mail viewing pane. When the received content item is edited, a copy of the edited content item is temporarily stored with the electronic communication with which the content item was received at an associated electronic communication server. When the receiving user then desires to dispose of the edited content item, for example, by replying back to the sending user with the edited content item as an attachment, the edited content item may be retrieved from the electronic communication server automatically for attachment to the responsive communication. | 10-01-2015 |
20150281150 | GENERATING CONTENT ITEMS OUT OF AN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION WORKFLOW - Inline document collaboration workflows are provided. When a user receives an electronic communication that includes an attached content item, the receiving user may select the attached content item and cause the attached content item to be displayed in an immersive view in proximity to an electronic communication pane in which an electronic communication may be conducted about any topic including the content item that is displayed in proximity to the electronic communication pane. During editing of a content item, an electronic communication may be generated from a user interface in which the content item is being generated, or alternatively a new content item may be generated out of an electronic communications user interface. | 10-01-2015 |
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20140200959 | PREDICTING FUTURE PERFORMANCE OF GAMES - One or more games may be developed and then provided to a group of consumers prior to those games becoming publicly available. After the users play the games for a predetermined amount of time, user feedback may be solicited and received. A game score for each game may be generated based on the user feedback and the game score may be utilized to determine whether the games should be modified prior to being publicly released to consumers. Based at least in part on historical data for other games, such as game scores and past sales performance for games that were previously released, the sales performance for the games that have yet to be released may be predicted. Such predictions may be generated based at least in part on one or more predictive models and/or regression analysis. | 07-17-2014 |
20140274354 | INTELLIGENT MERCHANDISING OF GAMES - User activity with respect to media content, such as games, may be tracked and collected. Data associated with the user activity may be utilized to generate one or more predictive models, which may determine correlations between users that accessed the media content, the media content, or genres relating to the media content. Additional media content may be recommended and/or promoted to users based at least in part on the correlations and/or the likelihood that the additional content would be of interest to the users. The additional content may be presented to the users via one of multiple communication channels, such as an application associated with a user device, a site associated with the additional content, via messages transmitted to the users, and/or any other manner of communicating the additional content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140274355 | DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATION OF GAMES - A user may utilize a user device to interact with a plurality of games via an application stored on the user device and/or a site associated with the plurality of games. The user may also select at least one of the plurality of games to view, try, play, download, install, and/or acquire. In response to a user selection of at least one of the plurality of games, one or more additional games may be dynamically presented and/or recommended to the user. The one or more additional games may be determined to have a higher likelihood of being of interest to the user. An area in which the one or more additional games are presented to the user may be persistently displayed to the user via a display of the user device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279121 | CUSTOMIZABLE AND ADJUSTABLE PRICING OF GAMES - One or more games may be accessed by a plurality of user devices. A current geographic location of a user device or a geographic location associated with the user device may be detected. A language associated with the one or more games and/or a type of currency of a rate associated with the one or more games may be customized based at least in part on the current geographic location and/or the geographic location. An identity of a user associated with the user device may also determined. Based at least in part on the identity of the user, the rate associated with the one or more games may be dynamically adjusted. | 09-18-2014 |
20160110516 | DYNAMIC MONITORING EARLY CANCER RISK - Disclosed are a method and a system for monitoring early cancer risk. Most current early cancer detection and diagnosis are related with gene and biomarkers, although the practice has proven the significant differences of blood and urine test results between cancer patients and healthy people, and obtaining the results of routine blood and urine tests is not difficult, the use of routine blood and urine tests to detect and monitor early cancer risk has never been reported; and traditionally, early cancer detection and monitoring have been managed by doctors and hospitals, the users are unable to do it themselves. The purpose of this invention is to provide an early cancer risk monitoring system enabling users to dynamic monitor the early cancer risk. | 04-21-2016 |
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20080250159 | Cybersquatter Patrol - An exemplary method includes providing a typographically erroneous domain name, tracing the domain name where tracing includes entering the domain name as part of a URL and recording one or more subsequent URLs, identifying a domain parking service for the domain name based at least in part on information in one of the recorded URLs, determining client identification information in at least one of the recorded URLs where the client identification information identifies a customer of the domain parking service and blocking one or more domain names based at least in part on the client identification information. Other exemplary technologies are also disclosed. | 10-09-2008 |
20080301116 | Search Ranger System And Double-Funnel Model For Search Spam Analyses and Browser Protection - An exemplary method for protecting web browsers from spam includes providing a multi-layer model that includes a doorway layer, a redirection domain layer, an aggregator layer, a syndicator layer and an advertiser layer; identifying domains as being associated with at least one of the layers; and, based at least in part on the identifying, taking one or more corrective actions to protect web browsers from search spam. An exemplary method for identifying a bottleneck layer in a multi-layer spam model includes providing a multi-layer spam model, collecting spam advertisements, associating a block of IP addresses with the collected spam advertisements and identifying a bottleneck layer based on the block of IP addresses. Other methods, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301139 | Search Ranger System and Double-Funnel Model For Search Spam Analyses and Browser Protection - An exemplary system for monitoring search spam and protecting against search spam includes a self-monitoring subsystem to uncover spam patterns and a self-protection subsystem to protect against spam by providing spam-related information to strengthen a relevance ranking algorithm. An exemplary architecture for monitoring search spam includes a first component to receive one or more spammer targeted keywords and to search, scan and analyze URLs based at least in part on the one or more spammer targeted keywords, a second component to receive one or more URLs from the first component and to verify one or more of these URLs as a spam URL and a third component to collect spammer targeted keywords associated with one or more spam URLs and to provide one or more of the spammer targeted keywords to the first component. Other methods, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301281 | Search Ranger System and Double-Funnel Model for Search Spam Analyses and Browser Protection - An exemplary method for defeating server-side click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. An exemplary method for investigating client-side cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script. Other methods, systems, etc., are also disclosed. | 12-04-2008 |
20090158036 | PROTECTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A method of establishing a protected environment within a computing device including validating a kernel component loaded into a kernel of the computing device, establishing a security state for the kernel based on the validation, creating a secure process and loading a software component into the secure process, periodically checking the security state of the kernel, and notifying the secure process when the security state of the kernel has changed. | 06-18-2009 |
20110087648 | SEARCH SPAM ANALYSIS AND DETECTION - Defeating click-through cloaking includes retrieving a search results page to set a browser variable, inserting a link to a page into the search results page and clicking through to the page using the inserted link. Investigating cloaking includes providing script associated with a suspected spam URL, modifying the script to de-obfuscate the script and executing the modified script to reveal cloaking logic associated with the script. | 04-14-2011 |
20130290627 | Data migration - A method for migrating data in a storage system includes generating a first set of logical disks (LDs), the LDs being mapped to physical storage space in the storage system, generating a temporary virtual volume (VV) mapped to the first set of LDs, generating a second set of LDs mapped to the temporary VV, and migrating data between the second set of LDs and a third set of LDs. | 10-31-2013 |
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20100121189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE PRESENTATION FOR MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES - Systems and methods which provide image presentation for medical examination, interventional procedures, diagnosis treatment, etc. from multi-dimensional volume datasets are shown. Reference indicators, providing information with respect to the relationship of an image to the physical world, are preferably provided to aid a viewer in interpreting the image. Such reference indicators may be provided in the form of tool markers and corresponding image marker. Degrees of freedom provided with respect to image manipulation are preferably selectively constrained to facilitate interaction with an image or images. Embodiments of the invention may implement a relatively simple bidirectional control to facilitate a survey of an entire image volume. Image display conventions may be provided which present images in a particular orientation to facilitate user interpretation of the image. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY INTERVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS - Systems and methods which operate to identify interventional instruments and/or other objects in images are shown. Embodiments operate to extract relevant information regarding interventional instruments from a multi-dimensional volume for presenting the information to a user in near real-time with little or no user interaction. Objects may be identified by segmenting a multi-dimensional volume, identifying a putative object of interest in multiple multi-dimensional volume segments, and determining a position of the object of interest within the multi-dimensional volume using the putative object of interest segment identifications. Identification of objects of interest according to embodiments may be utilized to determine an image plane for use in displaying the objects within a generated image, to track the objects within the multi-dimensional volume, etc., such as for medical examination, interventional procedures, diagnosis treatment, and/or the like. | 05-13-2010 |
20100260398 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE VOLUME IMAGING - Systems and methods which provide volume imaging by implementing survey and target imaging modes are shown. According to embodiments, a survey imaging mode is implemented to provide a volume image of a relatively large survey area. A target of interest is preferably identified within the survey area for use in a target imaging mode. Embodiments implement a target imaging mode to provide a volume image of a relatively small target area corresponding to the identified target of interest. The target imaging mode preferably adapts the beamforming, volume field of view, and/or other signal and image processing algorithms to the target area. In operation according to embodiments, the target imaging mode provides a volume image of a target area with improved volume rate and image quality. | 10-14-2010 |
20110245659 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ASSIST WITH INTERNAL POSITIONING OF INSTRUMENTS - Systems and methods which facilitate the correct placement of an instrument internal to an object aided by an overlay superimposed on an image are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments facilitate placement of a needle tip within a patient's body using on overlay superimposed on a sonographic image. A superimposed overlay of embodiments is created by monitoring a fixed point of an external portion of the instrument in relation to an imaging transducer. Superimposed overlays provided according to embodiments provide one or more graphical target designator and one or more graphical instrument designator which, when controlled to be disposed in a predetermined position, indicate proper placement of the instrument. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249878 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED IMAGING OF OBJECTS WITHIN AN IMAGE - Systems and methods which implement a plurality of different imaging signatures in generating an image frame are shown. A first imaging signature may be configured for providing relatively high quality images with respect to subsurface regions of living tissue, for example, whereas a second imaging signature may be configured for providing relatively high quality images with respect to interventional instruments inserted into living tissue at a steep angle. Image sub-frames generated using each such different imaging signature are blended to form a frame of the final image providing a relatively high quality image of various objects within the volume being imaged. | 10-13-2011 |
20130035590 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ASSIST WITH INTERNAL POSITIONING OF INSTRUMENTS - Systems and methods which facilitate the correct placement of an instrument internal to an object aided by an overlay superimposed on an image are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments facilitate placement of a needle tip within a patient's body using on overlay superimposed on a sonographic image. A superimposed overlay of embodiments is created by monitoring a fixed point of an external portion of the instrument in relation to an imaging transducer. Superimposed overlays provided according to embodiments provide one or more graphical target designator and one or more graphical instrument designator which, when controlled to be disposed in a predetermined position, indicate proper placement of the instrument. | 02-07-2013 |
20130188832 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE VOLUME IMAGING - Systems and methods which provide volume imaging by implementing survey and target imaging modes are shown. According to embodiments, a survey imaging mode is implemented to provide a volume image of a relatively large survey area. A target of interest is preferably identified within the survey area for use in a target imaging mode. Embodiments implement a target imaging mode to provide a volume image of a relatively small target area corresponding to the identified target of interest. The target imaging mode preferably adapts the beamforming, volume field of view, and/or other signal and image processing algorithms to the target area. In operation according to embodiments, the target imaging mode provides a volume image of a target area with improved volume rate and image quality. | 07-25-2013 |
20140024938 | ENHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF WORK FLOW - Enhanced ultrasound imaging apparatus and associated methods of work flow are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of ultrasound scanning includes receiving a first dataset representing ultrasonic scanning of a target anatomy of a patient in a two-dimensional mode and generating a two-dimensional ultrasound image of the scanned target anatomy based on the received first dataset. The method also includes receiving an input defining at least one of an A-plane, a B-plane, and a C-plane on the displayed two-dimensional ultrasound image. Thereafter, a second dataset representing ultrasonic scanning of the target anatomy in a three-dimensional mode is received and an additional ultrasound image along a plane orthogonal to the two-dimensional ultrasound image of the target anatomy is generated based on (1) the three-dimensional scanning and (2) the input defining at least one of the A-plane, the B-plane, and the C-plane. | 01-23-2014 |
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20120151074 | TARGETED DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN OPERATIONAL DOMAINS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for targeted data transfer data between operational domains. Embodiments of the invention facilitate moving data between operational domains inside and outside of a resource cloud. A proxy runs on the boundary of each operational domain, such as, for example, an on premise cluster and a resource cloud. The proxies are capable of resolving the location of the targeted entity and forwarding the data or request on to the next hop, which may either be another proxy or the worker module running on the target node. A proxy can run on the head node of an on premise cluster so that compute nodes on private networks can be targeted. A proxy can also run on a public endpoint within the resource cloud to make nodes within the resource cloud available. | 06-14-2012 |
20120209901 | Multilevel Multipath Widely Distributed Computational Node Scenarios - An application combines on-site and cloud-based calculations. The application selects a cloud computing broker from a list sorted by load. The broker receives computation requests from the application, sends corresponding load-balanced requests to local application service hosts and cloud proxies, receives responses, and sends the responses to the application without identifying the response source as local versus non-local. Each proxy has a logical-physical mapping of cloud-resident worker nodes. A scheduler receives session requests from applications, allocates local and cloud computing resources to a session, and tracks resource usage by session. An application previously run only on-premises can be executed partially on cloud worker nodes without modification. The proxy re-routes unfulfilled requests from a failed worker, undetected by the broker. If all workers assigned to that proxy fail, then the broker reassigns unfulfilled requests to another proxy, undetected by the application. | 08-16-2012 |
20130132456 | DECOUPLING CLUSTER DATA FROM CLOUD DEPOLYMENT - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for decoupling cluster data from cloud deployment. The decoupling facilitates taking down and reattaching a cluster to persisted data as needed. Other embodiments of the invention include resuming a cluster's execution on a different topology and/or different system states based on a persisted data set. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132946 | SYNCHRONIZED FAILOVER FOR ACTIVE-PASSIVE APPLICATIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronized active-passive application failover. A data connection to a single data source can be used as a synchronizations point. Interoperating instance side and data source side algorithms coordinate to transition a passive instance to an active instance within a specified period of time when a prior active instance fails. An active-passive controller can operate as an active-active module within an active-active environment to provide active-passive failover to active-passive modules. Application virtual names can be mapped to application instance electronic addresses to assist external modules in establishing application connections to active-passive applications. | 05-23-2013 |
20130159380 | PROVISIONING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CLUSTERS - Provisioning a cloud based high performance computing cluster. The method includes from a cloud based provisioning service deployed in a cloud based computing provider, providing a user interface. The method further includes receiving user input at the cloud based provisioning service from the user interface. The method further includes from the user input, determining a configuration for a cloud based user service for the user. Using the cloud based provisioning service, the method further includes provisioning the cloud based user service for the user, in the cloud, based on the determined configuration. | 06-20-2013 |
20130179488 | REST INTERFACE FOR JOB SUBMISSION - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for REST interface for job submission. At a HPC cluster system, a hosting program works between the clients on different platforms and the schedulers of the cluster system. The hosting program receives requests from the clients and then submits the requests to the schedulers. The communication between the hosting program and the schedulers may be based on .Net remoting protocol. Regardless of what platform the clients use, the hosting program maintains a same user interface to all the clients and the communication between the clients and the hosting program may be based on Representational State Transfer (“REST”). In addition, the hosting program also delegates identities to the clients when it receives multiple authentications from the schedulers. | 07-11-2013 |
20140172942 | DECOUPLING CLUSTER DATA FROM CLOUD DEPLOYMENT - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for decoupling cluster data from cloud deployment. The decoupling facilitates taking down and reattaching a cluster to persisted data as needed. Other embodiments of the invention include resuming a cluster's execution on a different topology and/or different system states based on a persisted data set. | 06-19-2014 |
20140207859 | PROVISIONING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CLUSTERS - Provisioning a cloud based high performance computing cluster. The method includes from a cloud based provisioning service deployed in a cloud based computing provider, providing a user interface. The method further includes receiving user input at the cloud based provisioning service from the user interface. The method further includes from the user input, determining a configuration for a cloud based user service for the user. Using the cloud based provisioning service, the method further includes provisioning the cloud based user service for the user, in the cloud, based on the determined configuration. | 07-24-2014 |
20140245060 | SYNCHRONIZED FAILOVER FOR ACTIVE-PASSIVE APPLICATIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronized active-passive application failover. A data connection to a single data source can be used as a synchronizations point. Interoperating instance side and data source side algorithms coordinate to transition a passive instance to an active instance within a specified period of time when a prior active instance fails. An active-passive controller can operate as an active-active module within an active-active environment to provide active-passive failover to active-passive modules. Application virtual names can be mapped to application instance electronic addresses to assist external modules in establishing application connections to active-passive applications. | 08-28-2014 |
20140365452 | Discovering Trending Content of a Domain - Systems and methods for identifying trending content on one or more domains is presented. In response to receiving a request for trending content on each domain of a set of domain, network activity data corresponding to network activity of a recent period of time is obtained. According to various embodiments, the network activity data corresponds to activity in the immediately previous time period and includes any of query logs from one or more search engines, social data from one or more social network sites, and browsing data corresponding to the browsing history of a plurality of computer users. Trending content from the network activity data for each domain of the set of domains is identified and the identified content is returned in response to the received request. | 12-11-2014 |
20150046441 | RETURN OF ORTHOGONAL DIMENSIONS IN SEARCH TO ENCOURAGE USER EXPLORATION - Architecture that provides results and data which are alternative (“orthogonal”) to the original (or primary) query and encourage the user to engage with dimensions of information other than, but related to, the original query intent. The architecture computes the original intent of original search query, computes a category of the original query based on the original intent, computes a target document (result) of a domain based on the query intent, determines if orthogonal intent is desired, computes an alternative document result of the domain related to the intent, and presents content associated with the alternative document result. | 02-12-2015 |
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20110147469 | Non Volatile Memory Circuit With Tailored Reliability - A non-volatile memory (NVM) circuit is provided, that includes at least a first and second NVM sub-array. The first sub-array is built from first memory cells. The second NVM sub-array is built from second memory cells that are constructed differently from the first memory cells. The NVM sub-arrays share a support circuit. In some embodiments the sub-arrays can be constructed, so that they exhibit different characteristics tailored to their intended use. For example one sub-array might be tailored for data retention, while the next sub-array for programming endurance, still another for write disturb immunity. | 06-23-2011 |
20150340090 | NON-VOLATILE SRAM WITH MULTIPLE STORAGE STATES - Technologies are generally described herein for a non-volatile static random access memory device with multiple storage states. In some examples, the multi-storage state non-volatile random access memory device has two or more memory cells. Each memory cell may include a pair of programmable resistive devices that may be dynamically programmed to configure the memory cell in a particular logic state. | 11-26-2015 |
20160049205 | RANK DETERMINATION - Technologies are generally provided for methods and circuitry to rank a large number of cells in a timeframe of about one sense cycle. In some examples, an architecture may be implemented to rank memory cells such as volatile memories, non-volatile memories, and other types of data storage devices, where there may not be an equivalent to threshold voltage. In other examples, an arbitrary group of circuits, such as in neural networks where there may not be an equivalent control gate to set the timing resolution, may be ranked. Relative sense timing may be used to rank the cells having different current carrying abilities. A ramped gate voltage may be used to control the timing resolution and to reduce contention between close separate cells. Digital logic may be used to latch and/or record the rank information. | 02-18-2016 |
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20100259806 | Fatigue Resistant MEMS Apparatus and System - A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) includes a conductor with improved reliability. The conductor flexes with a moving member in the MEMS device, and the improved reliability is achieved through material selections that provides increased fatigue resistance, reduced crack propagation, and/or mechanisms for improved live at a given strain level. The conductor may include a single material, or may include layers of different materials. | 10-14-2010 |
20110199284 | Piezoresistive Sensors for MEMS Device Having Rejection of Undesired Motion - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a piezoresistive stress sensor comprises a plurality of piezoresistive elements coupled in a bridge circuit disposed on, near, or contiguous to a flexure to detect torsional flexing about an axis of the flexure. The bridge circuit has at least two nodes disposed along the axis of the flexure and at least two nodes disposed off the axis of the flexure to maximize, or nearly maximize, an output of the bridge circuit in response to the torsional flexing of the flexure. A torsional flexing component of the output signal of the bridge circuit is relatively increased with respect to a component of the output signal generated by non-torsional stress of the flexure, or a component of the output signal generated by non-torsional stress of the flexure is reduced with respect to the torsional flexing component of the output signal, or combinations thereof. | 08-18-2011 |
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20100046843 | Method and Apparatus for Filling In or Replacing Image Pixel Data - A system for filling in and/or replacing pixel data in a target image uses pixel data from a source image. In one embodiment, the pixel data in the source image are classified and boundaries of local class areas or groups of similarly classified pixels are determined. The pixel data in the local class areas are compared to determine one or more scaling factors. The missing pixel data or data to be replaced in the target image is obtained from the source image and scaled with the one or more scaling factors. | 02-25-2010 |
20100158314 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING TREE GROWTH - A system for identifying forest stands within an area of interest that are exhibiting abnormal growth determines a relationship between vegetation index (VI) values determined from a first and a second image of the area of interest. From the relationship, an expected or predicted VI value for each forest stand is determined and compared with the actual VI value computed for the forest stand from the first image. Those forest stands with a difference between the actual and predicted VI values that exceed a threshold are identified as exhibiting abnormal growth. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158364 | AUTOMATIC AGE CLASSIFICATION OF FOREST LAND - A false color composite image is created by assigning mid infrared data from three time-spaced images of an area of interest to corresponding RGB color components for the false color composite image. The RGB color components for the false color composite image are then converted into color space data and classified into a number of color classes. An age is assigned to the color classes to create a classified image of age classes of the area of interest. | 06-24-2010 |
20100250482 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TREES USING LIDAR TREE MODELS - A computer system creates and stores a library of LiDAR models for standard trees that have measured characteristics. A point cloud of LiDAR data from an unidentified tree in a forest is compared against a point cloud defined by a LiDAR model of a standard tree in the library to find a match. If a match is found, one or more characteristics of the matching standard tree are associated with the unidentified tree. | 09-30-2010 |
20110242521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL TREES IN LIDAR DATA USING LOCAL VIEW - A method and apparatus for identifying individual trees and its canopy shape in LiDAR data determines if the view of each LiDAR data point is blocked by one or more neighboring LiDAR data points. LiDAR data points that do not have neighboring LiDAR data points that block the view are considered to be a central part of a tree canopy. In one embodiment, those LiDAR data points that are central part of a canopy are added to an output file that stores clusters of data points for each canopy detected. The central part of the canopy area can be analyzed to predict one or more characteristics of the tree. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING TREES IN LIDAR DATA USING VIEWS - A method and apparatus for identifying individual trees in LiDAR data based on the view of a LiDAR data point. In one embodiment, those LiDAR data points that do not have neighboring LiDAR data points that block the local view at a defined angle are considered to be in a central part of a tree canopy. In one embodiment, those LiDAR data points that are in a central part of a tree canopy are added to an output file that stores clusters of data points for each tree canopy detected. The central part of the tree canopy area can be analyzed to predict one or more characteristics of the tree. | 10-06-2011 |
20120033878 | AUTOMATIC AGE CLASSIFICATION OF FOREST LANDS - A false color composite image is created by assigning mid infrared data from three time-spaced images of an area of interest to corresponding RGB color components for the false color composite image. The RGB color components for the false color composite image are then converted into color space data and classified into a number of color classes. An age is assigned to the color classes to create a classified image of age classes of the area of interest. | 02-09-2012 |
20130004065 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING ARTIFACTS FROM AERIAL IMAGES - A computer system for creating artifact-free aerial images of a region of interest. A computer system receives one or more input aerial images that are obtained at different times. A false-color image is created by applying two or more of the input aerial images to different color channel inputs of the false-color image. Based on the color of the pixels in the false-color image, pixels in the two or more input aerial images are classified as representing clear, cloud or shadow areas. An output image is created by combining pixels that are classified as representing clear areas from two or more of the input aerial images. | 01-03-2013 |
20140003672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING STREAM NETWORK VECTORS FROM DIGITAL ELECATION MAP DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140185884 | System and Method for Estimating Ages of Forests from Remotely Sensed Images - A programmed computer system estimates the age of trees from a number of remotely sensed images of an area of interest. Vegetation Index (V.I.) values are determined for pixel locations in the number of images. The V.I. values are analyzed to find a V.I. value that correlates with a known age of a tree. Once the date of the image that produced the V.I. value is known, the current age of the trees that correspond to the pixel location is determined. | 07-03-2014 |
20150186727 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TYPES OF VEGETATION USING NEAR INFRARED COLOR PHOTOS - A system for analyzing remotely sensed photos of a forest or other areas of interest uses a computer system to increase the variation in NIR data having values that represent items of interest. In one embodiment, a computer system applies a stretching function to the NIR data to increase their variation. The objective spectral stretched NIR data is used to differentiate different types of vegetation in the remotely sensed image. Objective-based Vegetation Index (OVI) values are calculated from the objective spectral stretched NIR data that allow different types of vegetation to be distinguished. In one embodiment, the OVI values are used to differentiate hardwoods from conifers in a digital aerial photo of a forest. | 07-02-2015 |
20150356721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING TYPE OF VEGETATION FROM REMOTELY SENSED DATA - A computer system is programmed to analyze data from aerial images and LiDAR data obtained from a region of interest in order to determine whether a group of LiDAR data points representing an individual item of vegetation (i.e. a blob) is a particular type of vegetation. Infrared data from aerial images of the region of interest is stretched and divided by red spectral data to compute an objective-stretched vegetation index value (OVI) for a pixel. The mean LiDAR intensity and the mean OVI for the LiDAR data points and the pixels in the area of a blob are used to predict what type of vegetation is represented in the area of the blob. | 12-10-2015 |