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20140279130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AFFINITY CAPTURE, USER FEEDBACK AND AFFINITY ANALYSIS - Various affinity systems and methods are provided to enable the capture of unique end-to-end purchase information. In some embodiments, the data collected through affinity systems and methods can be used to develop insights into the purchase making decision processes of users at any point of a shopping experience. The systems can host interaction platforms to facilitate the exchange of information, opinion, and/or suggestions on products, recommendations, and/or opinions. Further embodiments provide analysis of the captured data to derive insights regarding the appeal of products/services and the qualitative opinions of the users about the products/services. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279232 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AFFINITY CAPTURE, USER FEEDBACK AND AFFINITY ANALYSIS - Various affinity systems and methods are provided to enable the capture of unique end-to-end purchase intent information. In some embodiments, the data collected through affinity systems and methods can be used to develop insights into the purchase making decision processes of users at any point of a shopping experience. The systems can host interaction platforms to facilitate the exchange of information, opinion, and/or suggestions on products, recommendations, and/or opinions. Further embodiments provide analysis of the captured data to derive insights regarding the appeal of products/services and the qualitative opinions of the users about the products/services. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279233 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN AFFINITY CAPTURE, USER FEEDBACK AND AFFINITY ANALYSIS - Provided in some embodiments is a social platform for soliciting qualified opinions and facilitating shopping, engaging shoppers, and delivering feedback. The social platform can communicate or integrate with existing sites to provide options for interacting with other qualified users. The platform can improve engagement, and increase social interaction. In some embodiments, affinity/feedback systems are provided that generate feedback for shoppers during their shopping experience. In addition to providing real-time feedback and opinions to shoppers, affinity and feedback systems can be configured to analyze and stored information on a complete purchasing experience. The complete purchasing experience can include, for example, initial identification of interest (e.g., establishing a purchase intent), specification of a product or service detail, actual identification and/or comparison of products/services, any interaction between shopping participants, conversations between participants, actual service/product purchase, and can also include after purchase conversation and/or review. | 09-18-2014 |
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20100003639 | POROUS IMPLANT WITH NON-POROUS THREADS - An implant which includes a shaft made of a first material and having an exterior surface, and at least one thread made of a second material different from the first material, engaging the exterior surface, and extending outwardly from the exterior surface for engaging bone. After implantation of the implant, bone tissue may osseointegrate into the porous shaft to anchor the implant within the surrounding bone. The first material may be a porous metal and include tantalum while the second material is non-porous. | 01-07-2010 |
20100003640 | IMPLANT WITH STRUCTURE FOR SECURING A POROUS PORTION - An implant includes a head portion, an intermediate portion and an initially separate stem portion configured to engage the head portion so that at least the head portion and the stem portion cooperatively secure the intermediate portion on the implant. The implant may also include a locking mechanism configured to secure the head portion to the stem portion by a press fit or a threaded connection. The intermediate portion may include a porous metal such as tantalum. | 01-07-2010 |
20130022943 | POROUS IMPLANT WITH NON-POROUS THREADS - A dental implant can comprise a shaft defining a longitudinal axis and having an apical end, a coronal end, and an exterior surface. A portion of the exterior surface can include a porous material. The dental implant can comprise at least one thread, including a non-porous material, having an interior surface and a bone-engaging surface. The interior surface can engage and wind around the exterior surface of the shaft and the bone-engaging surface can extend outwardly from the exterior surface of the shaft. The shaft can include one or more channels configured to communicate a flowable material, stored within the shaft, to the exterior surface. Each channel can include an opening at the exterior surface to release the flowable material. At least one channel can extend between a cavity of the shaft and the exterior surface and can optionally be angled toward the apical end. | 01-24-2013 |
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20110050693 | Automatic Placement of Shadow Map Partitions - Shadow map partitions may be automatically placed based on the location or concentration of sample data depth in eye space. An initial positioning for the partitions may be determined based on user specified budgets for number of partitions, computation time, or memory utilization, in some embodiments. The initial positioning may be refined using a clustering algorithm in some cases. | 03-03-2011 |
20120075304 | Backface Culling for Motion Blur and Depth of Field - In order to efficiently backface cull rendering primitives during computer graphics rendering, it is important to be sure that the rendering primitives to be culled are guaranteed to be backfacing even if the primitives are moving or are undergoing defocus blur. Therefore, we derive conservative tests that determine if a moving and defocused triangle is backfacing over an entire time interval and over the area of a lens. In addition, we present tests for the special cases of only motion blur and only depth of field. | 03-29-2012 |
20120182300 | Shadowing Dynamic Volumetric Media - A dynamic volumetric medium, such as hair, fog, or smoke, may be represented, for purposes of shadow mapping, by transmittance versus depth data for that medium. In one embodiment, the representation may take the form of a plot of transmittance versus depth, with nodes where the transmittance changes non-live linearly with respect of depth into the medium. The number of nodes in the representation may be reduced to reduce memory footprint and to enable the storage of the representation on the same chip doing the shadow mapping. In some embodiments, the number of nodes may be reduced, one node at a time, by removing the node whose underlying trapezoid has the least area of all the remaining nodes. | 07-19-2012 |
20120299951 | Rendering Transparent Primitives - Representing a transparent object as a summation of substantially zero step functions of a visibility curve for the object. An array may be used to store nodes to represent the visibility function. The size of the array may be limited to be storable within a memory of an on-chip graphics processing unit. | 11-29-2012 |
20130257885 | Low Power Centroid Determination and Texture Footprint Optimization For Decoupled Sampling Based Rendering Pipelines - The problem of generating high quality images with a rendering pipeline based on decoupled sampling may be addressed by generating non-extrapolated shading locations and by determining improved texture filtering footprints. This may be accomplished by performing shading at the center of a bounding box that bounds mapped shading samples. | 10-03-2013 |
20130314431 | REAL-TIME ORDER-INDEPENDENT TRANSPARENT RENDERING - A method and system for producing an image to be displayed are disclosed herein. The image includes a plurality of pixels. An example of the method includes dedicating a fixed amount of memory to store a data structure for a pixel of plurality of pixels. The method also includes building a visibility function and determining a partial color sum for each fragment of the plurality of fragments. A pixel color is determined using the visibility function and the partial color sums. | 11-28-2013 |
20140022273 | Surface Based Graphics Processing - In some cases, instead of providing one color sample for every primitive overlying a pixel, surfaces made up of more than one primitive may be identified. In some cases, a surface may be identified that is likely to be of the same color. So, in such case, only one color sample may be needed for more than one primitive. | 01-23-2014 |
20140198113 | SERIALIZED ACCESS TO GRAPHICS RESOURCES - Methods and systems may provide for identifying a plurality of subject commands that reference a common screen location and access a read/write resource, and serializing the plurality of subject commands according to a predefined order. Additionally, execution of the plurality of subject commands may be deferred until one or more additional commands referencing the common screen location are executed. In one example, the plurality of subject commands are serialized in response to a serialization command. | 07-17-2014 |
20140204111 | LAYERED LIGHT FIELD RECONSTRUCTION FOR DEFOCUS BLUR - An algorithm may reconstruct defocus blur from a sparsely sampled light field. Light field samples are generated, using stochastic rasterization or ray tracing as examples. Then the samples are partitioned into depth layers. These depth layers are filtered independently and then combined together, taking into account inter-layer visibility. Since each layer corresponds to a smaller depth range, it results in more effective reconstruction filters than previous approaches. | 07-24-2014 |
20140375647 | EFFICIENT REAL-TIME RENDERING FOR HIGH PIXEL DENSITY DISPLAYS - Methods and systems may provide for obtaining a plurality of visibility samples for an image at a sample resolution, wherein a first subset of the plurality of visibility samples has corresponding color samples. One or more of the color samples may be replicated from the first subset to a second subset of the plurality of visibility samples, and the visibility samples and the color samples may be rendered at a native display resolution. Additionally, the sample resolution may be greater than a pixel resolution of the image and greater than or equal to the native display resolution. In one example, the image includes a plurality of pixels and the plurality of visibility samples are obtained in accordance with an axis-aligned grid within each pixel of the image. | 12-25-2014 |
20150178983 | Variable Shading - In some embodiments, a given frame or picture may have different shading rates. In one embodiment in some areas of the frame or picture the shading rate may be less than once per pixel and in other places it may be once per pixel. An algorithm may be used to determine how the shading rate changes across the frame. | 06-25-2015 |
20150206340 | Layered Reconstruction for Defocus and Motion Blur - Real-time light field reconstruction for defocus blur may be used to handle the case of simultaneous defocus and motion blur. By carefully introducing a few approximations, a very efficient sheared reconstruction filter is derived, which produces high quality images even for a very low number of input samples in some embodiments. The algorithm may be temporally robust, and is about two orders of magnitude faster than previous work, making it suitable for both real-time rendering and as a post-processing pass for high quality rendering in some embodiments. | 07-23-2015 |
20150279089 | STREAMING COMPRESSION ANTI-ALIASING APPROACH TO DEFERRED SHADING - Systems and methods may provide for receiving fragment data for a pixel of an image at a deferred shader stage of a rendering pipeline and identifying one or more surfaces in the pixel based on the fragment data. Additionally, each identified surface may be stored as an entry in a geometry buffer (G-buffer) corresponding to the pixel if a memory overflow condition for the G-buffer is not met. In one example, a weight is assigned to each surface in the G-buffer based on a coverage of the pixel by the surface and an occlusion status of the surface, and a color is resolved for the pixel based on the assigned weights. | 10-01-2015 |
20150379761 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCED PIXEL SHADING - Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for reducing processing demands of shading primitives in rendering a 2D screen image from a 3D model. A device includes a clipping component to clip a visible primitive of a 2D screen image derived from of a 3D model within a first area of the screen image covered by a shading pixel to form a polygon representing an intersection of the first area and the visible primitive; a first interpolation component to interpolate at least one attribute of vertices of the visible primitive to each vertex of the polygon; and a second interpolation component to interpolate color values of the vertices of the polygon to a point within a second area covered by a screen pixel of the screen image, the second area smaller than the first area and at least partly coinciding with the first area. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILTERED COARSE PIXEL SHADING - An apparatus and method for performing coarse pixel shading (CPS). For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: A method for coarse pixel shading (CPS) comprising: pre-processing a graphics mesh by creating a tangent-plane parameterization of desired vertex attributes for each vertex of the mesh; and performing rasterization of the mesh in a rasterization stage of a graphics pipeline using the tangent-plane parameterization. | 12-31-2015 |
20160078672 | Deferred Coarse Pixel Shading - A shading rate may be set by analyzing samples within a pixel. Then based on that analysis, a system determines whether to use coarse pixel, pixel or sample shading for a region of pixels. Based on the determined type of shading, the shading rate may be set. | 03-17-2016 |
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20120032580 | PHOSPHOR BLEND AND FLUORESCENT LAMP CONTAINING SAME - A phosphor blend is described wherein the blend consists of a red-emitting rare earth phosphor, a green-emitting rare earth phosphor, and a blue-emitting rare earth phosphor wherein the 50% size of the phosphors is between about 12 to 15 μm. The phosphor blend is incorporated into a fluorescent lamp having an increased efficacy. A dual layer coating may be used to provide an additional increase in efficacy. | 02-09-2012 |
20120161655 | BALLAST WITH ANTI-STRIATION CIRCUIT - A ballast including an inverter circuit for providing an oscillating power signal for energizing at least one lamp. The inverter circuit includes a first transistor having a first gain and a second transistor having a second gain, each configured for alternately operating between a conductive state and a non-conductive state. The power signal has a waveform cycle comprising a first pulse generated when a first transistor operates in a conductive state, and a second pulse generated when the second transistor operates in a conductive state. The integral value of the first pulse of each waveform cycle of the power signal is different from the integral value of the second pulse of each waveform cycle such that a differential relationship between the first gain and the second gain is greater than or equal to a minimum value in order to minimize lamp striations. | 06-28-2012 |
20120229013 | ENERGY SAVING GAS DISCHARGE LAMP INCLUDING A XENON-BASED GASEOUS MIXTURE - An energy saving gas discharge lamp, and method of making same, is provided. The gas discharge lamp includes a light-transmissive envelope, and an electrode within the light-transmissive envelope to provide a discharge. A light scattering reflective layer is disposed on an inner surface of the light-transmissive envelope. A phosphor layer is coated on the light scattering reflective layer. A discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture is retained inside the light-transmissive envelope. The discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture includes more than 80% xenon, by volume, at a low pressure. | 09-13-2012 |
20130196564 | ENERGY SAVING GAS DISCHARGE LAMP INCLUDING A XENON-BASED GASEOUS MIXTURE - An energy saving gas discharge lamp, and method of making same, is provided. The gas discharge lamp includes a light-transmissive envelope, and an electrode within the light-transmissive envelope to provide a discharge. A light scattering reflective layer is disposed on an inner surface of the light-transmissive envelope. A phosphor layer is coated on the light scattering reflective layer. A discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture is retained inside the light-transmissive envelope. The discharge-sustaining gaseous mixture includes more than | 08-01-2013 |
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20120074996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING PHASE OFFSET ERRORS IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A frequency synthesizer that utilizes locked loop circuitry, for example delay locked loop and/or phase locked loop circuits is provided with a means for minimizing static phase/delay errors. An auto-tuning circuit and technique provide a measurement of static phase error by integrating the static phase error in the DLL/PLL circuit. A correction value is determined and applied as a current at the charge pump or as a time/phase offset at the phase detector to minimize static phase error. During normal operation the DLL/PLL is operated with the correction value resulting in substantially reduced spur levels and/or improved settling time. | 03-29-2012 |
20130265034 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMIC FAST SPECTRAL SURVEY - A method and apparatus for multi-resolution multi-bandwidth spectral signal estimation is provided herein. During operation, a plurality of detectors is provided to determine if an input signal is above a predetermined threshold. The input signal comprises a first frequency range having a first bandwidth. If it is determined that the input signal of the first bandwidth is above a first predetermined threshold, then the same plurality of detectors are used to further analyze sub-bands of the first frequency range, each sub-band having a second bandwidth less than the first bandwidth. The further analysis determines if an input signal to a detector is above a second predetermined threshold. | 10-10-2013 |
20150180516 | SYSTEMS FOR AND METHODS OF USING A MIRRORED WIDEBAND BASEBAND CURRENT FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF AN RF RECEIVER - Disclosed herein are systems for and methods of using a mirrored wideband baseband current for automatic gain control of an RF receiver. In an embodiment, a system includes an RF receiver having an adjustable gain and being configured to direct convert a received wideband RF signal to a wideband baseband current signal. The system further includes a current replicator coupled to the receiver and configured to generate a mirrored current of the wideband baseband current signal. The system further includes a wideband signal-level detector configured to receive the mirrored current from the current replicator, and to measure and output a signal-level value of the mirrored current. The system further includes an automatic gain-control circuit configured to receive the signal-level value from the wideband signal-level detector, and to adjust the gain of the receiver based at least in part on the received signal-level value. | 06-25-2015 |