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| 20100086023 | MANAGING MULTIVIEW STREAMING VIDEO DATA COMPOSED OF FRAMES - A system for managing multiview streaming video data composed of a plurality of frames includes an encoder configured to encode multiple representations of at least one frame of the plurality of frames corresponding to multiple views using different reference frames for each of the multiple representations. The system also includes a controller configured to create a coding tree containing the plurality of frames and the multiple representations. The system further includes a data store configured to store the coding tree, wherein the controller is further configured to identify a storage constraint of the data store and to omit at least one of the multiple representations from the coding tree to cause the plurality of frames stored in the data store to remain within the storage constraint. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100114871 | Distance Quantization in Computing Distance in High Dimensional Space - Techniques and systems for quantization based nearest neighbor searches can include quantizing a set of candidate points based on one or more characteristics of a query point; generating metric values based on the quantized candidate points, respectively, the metric values being indicative of respective proximities between the query point and the candidate points; and selecting one or more of the candidate points in response to the query point based on the metric values. In some implementations, techniques and systems can compress search metric computation resolution by implementing non-uniform scalar quantization within a metric computation process. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100295922 | Coding Mode Selection For Block-Based Encoding - In a method of selecting coding modes for block-based encoding of a digital video stream composed of a plurality of successive frames, depth values of pixels contained in coding blocks having different sizes in the plurality of successive frames are obtained, the largest coding block sizes that contain pixels having sufficiently similar depth values are identified, and coding modes for block-based encoding of the coding blocks having, at minimum, the largest identified coding block sizes are selected. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100306403 | METHOD FOR STREAMING VIDEO DATA - A method for streaming video data. Video data is received. At least one frame of the video data is segmented into a plurality of regions. Video data corresponding to a first region of the plurality of regions is transmitted over a network. The video data corresponding to a second region of the plurality of regions is modified according to interactive input. The video data corresponding to a modified version of the second region is transmitted over the network. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110206288 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING SYSTEM USING GRAPH BASED PIXEL PREDICTION AND ENCODING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are an image encoding/decoding system and method using a graph-based pixel prediction, and a depth map encoding system and method. The encoding system may generate an edge map based on a pixel value difference between neighboring pixels in an inputted image, generate a graph by connecting pixels using the generated edge map, select a prediction value for at least one pixel based on the generated graph, and encode an image based on the selected prediction value. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120014289 | Distributed Transforms for Efficient Data Gathering in Sensor Networks - Devices, systems, and techniques for data collecting network such as wireless sensors are disclosed. A described technique includes detecting one or more remote nodes included in the wireless sensor network using a local power level that controls a radio range of the local node. The technique includes transmitting a local outdegree. The local outdegree can be based on a quantity of the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes receiving one or more remote outdegrees from the one or more remote nodes. The technique includes determining a local node type of the local node based on detecting a node type of the one or more remote nodes, using the one or more remote outdegrees, and using the local outdegree. The technique includes adjusting characteristics, including an energy usage characteristic and a data compression characteristic, of the wireless sensor network by selectively modifying the local power level and selectively changing the local node type. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120188234 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus may synthesize an image observed at a target view excluding a reference view. A decoder of the image processing apparatus may decode depth transition data. A first map generator of the image processing apparatus may generate a foreground and background map of a target view to render an image, based on the decoded depth transition data. A rendering unit of the image processing apparatus may determine a color value of each of pixels constituting the image by comparing the foreground and background map of the target view with a foreground and background map of at least one reference view. | 07-26-2012 |
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| 20100268807 | MULTI-CHASSIS COMPONENT CORRECTOR AND ASSOCIATOR ENGINE - Various exemplary embodiments relate to a network management system (NMS) and a method performed on the NMS including one or more of the following: receiving a notification of a new endpoint discovered in the network, the new endpoint representing an endpoint in a multi-chassis pair; determining that an address of the new endpoint conflicts with an address of a first existing endpoint of an existing multi-chassis pair, wherein the first existing endpoint is currently paired with a second existing endpoint; determining whether the new endpoint or the first existing endpoint is a proper endpoint of the existing multi-chassis pair; and when the new endpoint is the proper endpoint of the existing multi-chassis pair, updating the data representing the topology in the storage module to replace the first existing endpoint with the new endpoint as paired with the second existing endpoint. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110188379 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACING MOBILE SESSIONS - A method and apparatus for a method and apparatus for determining a path supporting a mobile session to identify the underlying transport elements supporting the path. In various embodiments mobile session tracing is implemented within a network such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network by determining elements in a path supporting a mobile session of a user equipment (UE) having an specific identifier, such as an IP address or terminal identification number. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDITING 4G MOBILITY NETWORKS - A method and apparatus for auditing mobile services delivery to provide a coherent, path-based awareness of the quality level of the mobile services and the corresponding underlying transport elements supporting each service or path. In various embodiments, service or connection audits triggered within a network such as a 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network result in the execution of one or more test sequences adapted to provide service, connection or other information pertaining to the network or the supported mobile services. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188403 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING MOBILE SERVICES DELIVERY - A method and apparatus for analyzing mobile services delivery to provide a coherent, path-based awareness of the mobile services and the corresponding underlying transport elements supporting each service or path. In various embodiments, configuration information, status information and connections information associated with elements within a network such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network are used to help infer or determine the connections between network elements to be managed. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188457 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MOBILE RESOURCE USAGE - A method and apparatus for managing network resource consumption. In various embodiments, excessive resource consumption within a network such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network attributed to one or more user devices (UDs) is constrained by adjusting a Policy Control and Charging (PCC) rule associated with a network element serving the UD such that the corresponding network resource consumption level is reduced. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110267980 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HINT-BASED DISCOVERY OF PATH SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for rapidly discovering unknown or unmanaged portions of network using hints defining possible transport layer infrastructure topology and the like | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20090146453 | Vehicle Underbody Fairing - A vehicle underbody fairing apparatus for reducing aerodynamic drag caused by a vehicle wheel assembly, by reducing the size of a recirculation zone formed under the vehicle body immediately downstream of the vehicle wheel assembly. The fairing body has a tapered aerodynamic surface that extends from a front end to a rear end of the fairing body with a substantially U-shaped cross-section that tapers in both height and width. Fasteners or other mounting devices secure the fairing body to an underside surface of the vehicle body, so that the front end is immediately downstream of the vehicle wheel assembly and a bottom section of the tapered aerodynamic surface rises towards the underside surface as it extends in a downstream direction. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100066123 | TRAILER WHEEL FAIRINGS - A wheel fairing and preferably a set of wheel fairings for reducing aerodynamic drag caused by the left-side and right side wheel sets of a rear wheel assembly supporting a trailer body at its rear end. The fairing body includes a tapered aerodynamic surface with a substantially U-shaped cross-section that tapers from a second end to a first end, and a base surface at the second end with a substantially same dimensional profile as one of the left-side or right-side wheel sets. Fasteners or other mounting devices secure each fairing body to an underside of the trailer body either upstream (as a nose fairing) or downstream (as a tail fairing) of the rear wheel assembly so that the second end is adjacent to an exposed rolling surface of the left-side or right side wheel set. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100106380 | ARTICULATING BASE FLAPS FOR AERODYNAMIC BASE DRAG REDUCTION AND STABILITY OF A BLUFF BODY VEHICLE - An aerodynamic base drag reduction and stability control apparatus and method uses a plurality of articulable base flaps each hingedly connected near one of a left side edge, a right side edge, a top side edge, and a bottom side edge of a rear end base of a vehicle so that each of the base flaps have a corresponding range of motion between a first position subject to direct impingement by a free stream adjacent the vehicle in motion and a second position not subject to direct impingement by the free stream. And a controller independently actuates the base flaps to corresponding desired positions relative to the free stream and within the corresponding ranges of motion to produce a desired combined aerodynamic drag reducing and/or stabilizing effect on the vehicle in motion. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110109121 | ROOF AND GAP FAIRING FOR THE AERODYNAMIC DRAG REDUCTION OF TANKER TRUCKS - A fairing apparatus for reducing aerodynamic drag of a tanker in a freestream, and including a fairing body with a roof section, and left and right side sections connected to and extending below the roof section. Fasteners, for example, mount the fairing body on a cab of the tanker so that the roof, left, and right side sections extend from the roof, left and right side surfaces, respectively, of the cab towards a cylindrical tank carried behind the cab to reduce the gap between the cab and the tank and impede cross-flow therethrough, and the fairing surfaces of the roof, left, and right side sections are angled and preferably curvilinearly contoured to redirect airflow from the top and side surfaces of the cab to the curvilinearly contoured top and side surfaces of the tank to compensate for a profile mismatch between the cab and the taller and/or wider tank. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20120158034 | Expandable Implant and Implant System - An embodiment of the invention includes an expandable implant to endovascularly embolize an anatomical void or malformation, such as an aneurysm. An embodiment is comprised of a chain or linked sequence of expandable polymer foam elements. Another embodiment includes an elongated length of expandable polymer foam coupled to a backbone. Another embodiment includes a system for endovascular delivery of an expandable implant (e.g., shape memory polymer) to embolize an aneurysm. The system may include a microcatheter, a lumen-reducing collar coupled to the distal tip of the microcatheter, a flexible pushing element detachably coupled to an expandable implant, and a flexible tubular sheath inside of which the compressed implant and pushing element are pre-loaded. Other embodiments are described herein. | 06-21-2012 |
