942 results about "Objective information" patented technology

A system and method are disclosed for coordinating customized mobility services through a network. The system includes a network, an access device configured to connect to the network, a server configured to communicate with the access device through the network, an identification module configured to identify a user's customer account and to associate at least one mobility service with the user's customer account, and a virtual mobile attendant configured to coordinate customized mobility services through the network. The method includes receiving personal vehicles supply information from at least one transit management system, receiving demand information from a virtual mobility attendant, determining target information from the supply information and the demand information for the personal vehicles in a vicinity most closely matching the end user demand information, and transmitting the target information to the virtual mobility attendant.

A client-side multimedia content targeting system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of multimedia content on a client system storage device. The invention accepts as input a prioritized list of program viewing preferences which is compared with a database of program guide objects that indicate when programs of interest are actually broadcast. The viewer may request that certain content be captured, which results in the highest possible priority for those content. The viewer may also explicitly express preferences using appurtenances provided through the viewer interface. Preferences may additionally be inferred from viewing patterns. The viewer's client system locally retains the viewer's preferences and other personal information that the viewer has entered and is sent targeting information relating to program guide objects by a server. Using the viewer's preferences and personal information, the client system creates a viewer profile, which is used with the targeting information by the client system to record content that is within the viewer profile. The invention's client-based form of targeting can be applied to almost any multimedia situation, including, but not limited to: TV shows, movies, advertisements, product and service offerings, music, radio, audio, etc.

A system and method for enabling use of detailed consumer profiles for the purposes of targeted information delivery while protecting these profiles from disclosure to information providers or hostile third parties are disclosed herein. Rather than gathering data about a consumer in order to decide which information to send her, an information provider makes use of a client-side executable software module called a negotiant function. The negotiant function acts as a client-side proxy to protect consumer data, and it also directs the targeting of information, requesting items of information from the information provider that are tailored to the profile provided by the consumer.

The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices related to target tracking by UAVs. The UAV may be configured to receive target information from a control terminal related to a target to be tracked by an imaging device coupled to the UAV. The target information may be used by the UAV to automatically track the target so as to maintain predetermined position and / or size of the target within one or more images captured by the imaging device. The control terminal may be configured to display images from the imaging device as well as allowing user input related to the target information.

An electronic health care management system is provided which collects both subjective and objective information regarding a patient into a clinical patient record, and uses the record to determine evidence-based recommendations. A healthcare provider may decide to implement certain recommendations, and / or provide additional interventions which are collectively implemented using automated support tools. Often, a plan can include follow-up activities which may be automatically scheduled by the electronic health care management system, and may include external scheduling programs and corresponding application-programming interfaces (APIs).

A close up tracking and monitoring method of video movement object based on linkage structure of double camera shooting heads includes using a overall view monitor camera shooting head to carry out identification on object in monitoring region to confirm position and direction as well as movement speed of object, sending object information to close up tracking camera shooting head with direction being controlled by rotary table after tracking object is locked out, obtaining more information of locked object by utilizing close up tracking camera shooting head to display close up picture of locked object.

A system and methods for autonomously tracking and simultaneously providing surveillance of a target from air vehicles. In one embodiment the system receives inputs from outside sources, creates tracks, identifies the targets and generates flight plans for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and camera controls for surveillance of the targets. The system uses predictive algorithms and aircraft control laws. The system comprises a plurality of modules configured to accomplish these tasks. One embodiment comprises an automatic target recognition (ATR) module configured to receive video information, process the video information, and produce ATR information including target information. The embodiment further comprises a multi-sensor integrator (MSI) module configured to receive the ATR information, an air vehicle state input and a target state input, process the inputs and produce track information for the target. The embodiment further comprises a target module configured to receive the track information, process the track information, and produce predicted future state target information. The embodiment further comprises an ownship module configured to receive the track information, process the track information, and produce predicted future state air vehicle information. The embodiment further comprises a planner module configured to receive the predicted future state target information and the predicted future state air vehicle information and generate travel path information including flight and camera steering commands for the air vehicle.

A system for automatically encrypting and decrypting data packet sent from a source host to a destination host across a public internetwork. A tunnelling bridge is positioned at each network, and intercepts all packets transmitted to or from its associated network. The tunnelling bridge includes tables indicated pairs of hosts or pairs of networks between which packets should be encrypted. When a packet is transmitted from a first host, the tunnelling bridge of that host's network intercepts the packet, and determines from its header information whether packets from that host that are directed to the specified destination host should be encrypted; or, alternatively, whether packets from the source host's network that are directed to the destination host's network should be encrypted. If so, the packet is encrypted, and transmitted to the destination network along with an encapsulation header indicating source and destination information: either source and destination host addresses, or the broadcast addresses of the source and destination networks (in the latter case, concealing by encryption the hosts' respective addresses). An identifier of the source network's tunnelling bridge may also be included in the encapsulation header. At the destination network, the associated tunnelling bridge intercepts the packet, inspects the encapsulation header, from an internal table determines whether the packet was encrypted, and from either the source (host or network) address or the tunnelling bridge identifier determines whether and how the packet was encrypted. If the packet was encrypted, it is now decrypted using a key stored in the destination tunnelling bridge's memory, and is sent on to the destination host. The tunnelling bridge identifier is used particularly in an embodiment where a given network has more than one tunnelling bridge, and hence multiple possible encryption / decryption schemes and keys. In an alternative embodiment, the automatic encryption and decryption may be carried out by the source and destination hosts themselves, without the use of additional tunnelling bridges, in which case the encapsulation header includes the source and destination host addresses.

A system is disclosed in which a geographic area of interest can be selected, and information corresponding to the selected area can be downloaded and displayed by a user in an efficient and timely manner. The geographic area of interest may initially be selected by various input means such as a map, longitude / latitude coordinates, a global positioning system (GPS), and the like. Once the particular geographic area has been selected, geographic information corresponding to the selected area is downloaded to the user. The geographic information may include photographic images, radar, radio transmission, cell phone transmission, time sequenced images, ground moving target information, air moving target information, maritime moving target information, red or blue force identification and / or potential hazard areas information. The geographic information may be stored in a suitable data storage system such as a server. Alternatively, the geographic information may be generated real time and downloaded to the user. In one embodiment, the geographic information includes photographic images and a relatively low resolution image of a large geographic area is initially displayed to the user. The user can then select a limited region of the photographic image for closer viewing. The limited region of the photographic image may then be downloaded to the user in a higher resolution format, thereby reducing the amount of high resolution data that must be transmitted to the user. Various display devices may be used, such as personal data assistants (PDAs), laptop computers, desktop computers, vehicle-mounted computers, tablets, cell phones and the like. The display device may also be used as the input device to both select the geographic area of interest and display the photographic images or other geographic information of the selected area.

An in-vehicle display device includes (a) a display unit provided on a surface of an instrument panel of a vehicle, opposed to a windshield of the vehicle, and configured to indicate a plurality of information dots V in a row or in a rectangular array on the windshield such that the necessary information dots are selectably displayed from among the plurality of the information dots and superposed upon a real image viewed through the windshield, (b) a target information acquisition unit that obtains target information of which a driver of the vehicle is to be notified, and (c) a display control unit that controls the display unit and makes the display unit indicate the predetermined information dots V that correspond to the target information that has been obtained by the target information acquisition unit.

A smart airport automation system includes a subsystem that inputs weather and airport configuration data to determine an active runway in use and an airport state. Another subsystem inputs aircraft position and velocity data from available surveillance sources, known flight-intent information, and past aircraft trajectories to project future aircraft unconstrained trajectories. A third subsystem uses the projected trajectories and aircraft intent to determine desired landing and takeoff sequences, and desired adjacent aircraft spacing. A fourth subsystem uses such information to predict potential aircraft conflicts, such as a loss of acceptable separation between adjacent aircraft. A fifth subsystem packages the weather, airport configuration, aircraft state, desired landing / takeoff sequence, and potential conflict detection into a verbal advisory message that is broadcast on a local common radio frequency. A sixth subsystem uses the projected trajectory information to control the runway and taxiway lighting system.

The present invention provides methods and systems to periodically monitor the emotional state of a subject comprising the steps of: exposing the subject to a plurality of stimuli during a session; acquiring objective data from a plurality of monitoring sensors, wherein at least one sensor measures a physiological parameter; transferring the data to a database; and processing the data to extract objective information about the emotional state of the subject.

The invention relates to an image search system and a method which is an interactive image search system and method. The method includes the following steps: the user selects objective photos, area interested and the object category to be identified; automatically partitioning the foreground area by a foreground extraction method according to the area and category selected by the user and extract the image features in the foreground area; searching the matching images in the image database of the specific category according to the image features; acquiring the related objective information according to the matching images and return the information of the matching image to the user. For any image, the invention can effectively extract the objective information from the image, thus realizing an elaborated search of the object in an image. Meanwhile the invention combines the category information of target objectives into the image search, thus effectively improving the search precision and reducing the operation complexity. The invention realizes an image-search-based e-commerce system.

A vision system for a vehicle that identifies and classifies objects (targets) located proximate a vehicle. The system comprises a sensor array that produces imagery that is processed to generate depth maps of the scene proximate a vehicle. The depth maps are processed and compared to pre-rendered templates of target objects that could appear proximate the vehicle. A target list is produced by matching the pre-rendered templates to the depth map imagery. The system processes the target list to produce target size and classification estimates. The target is then tracked as it moves near a vehicle and the target position, classification and velocity are determined. This information can be used in a number of ways. For example, the target information may be displayed to the driver, the information may be used for an obstacle avoidance system that adjusts the trajectory or other parameters of the vehicle to safely avoid the obstacle. The orientation and / or configuration of the vehicle may be adapted to mitigate damage resulting from an imminent collision, or the driver may be warned of an impending collision.

The invention relates to an image stabilizing method of an airborne tripod head moving target autonomous tracking system based on human eye-like complex movement, which comprises an unmanned aircraft, and a flying control system, an airborne tripod head video camera, an airborne image processing unit and an airborne bionic control microprocessor. The method comprises the following steps that: a posture sensor measures the posture location of the small unmanned aircraft, a visual sensor acquires the target information of the video camera, after corresponding analog / digital (A / D) conversion and digital filtration, the information of posture location and the information of the video camera are operated and processed according to the input relation of established eyeball composite movement, the relevant deviation between a tracked target and the optical axis of the video camera is obtained, corresponding scale conversion is carried out, the processed information serves as a control law of an airborne tripod head controller to respectively control an airborne tripod head motor and realize the characteristics of the eyeball composite movement. The method can regulate an airborne tripod head in real time through the steps according to the position information of the tracked moving target and the posture information of the unmanned aircraft, so that the unmanned aircraft can autonomously track a suspicious moving target in an uneven environment and play a certain role in stabilizing a tracked image.

Methods and systems for receiving targeted content messages on a wireless access terminal (W-AT) are disclosed. For example, a particular method may include selecting at least one reception time based on a user profile and a targeted content message delivery schedule, and receiving a targeted content message at the selected reception time.

The invention relates to a network security dynamic early-warning method based on a knowledge graph. After the knowledge graph is constructed according to network security data and domain knowledge of a complicated heterogeneous environment, a graph query method toward a network security domain is used for extracting target information, through the disposal and analysis for the security data, precise description is carried out, and finally, the target information is obtained. According to the network security dynamic early-warning method based on the knowledge graph, the difficulty and complexity of network security data processing can be reduced.

The present invention mines or extracts data present during interaction between at least two participants, for example in a chat session, a video session, etc. via the Internet. The data, which can include participant web camera generated video, audio, keyboard typed information, handwriting recognized information, is analyzed. Based upon the analysis, content-dependent information is determined and may be displayed to one or more participants in the chat session. In one aspect, a video foreground based upon a participant's generated video is combined with a customized computer generated background that is based upon data mined from the chat session. The customized background preferably is melded seamlessly with the participant's foreground data, preferably via background substitution that combines RGB video with depth data that predicts what background may substituted with new imagery. Content-based targeted information can include advertisement(s).

A wireless system (20) and method for determining the location of a fixed or mobile target (31, 32, 33 . . . ) configured to have a transponder (31, 64) on the target (31, 32, 33 . . . ), a transceiver (21, 44) monitoring the target location, communicating between the transponder (31, 64) and transceiver (21, 44), and a processor (40) for finding the target by virtual triangulation based on values of received position information. The processor (40) is configured to determine virtual triangulation based on successive values of the position information using at least three points (P1, P2 and P3) of the transponder (31) respective of the transceiver (21). The present invention discloses methods for finding with virtual triangulation by: (a) finding with virtual triangulation by generating position information in real-time, in the case of (i) stationary and moving target, and or (ii) in the case of the presence of obstacles; (b) finding with virtual triangulation relating to the average speed of the motion of operator; and or (c) finding with simplified virtual triangulation.

Advertisements or other types of targeted information are delivered to a set-top box or other user interface device of signal distribution system. In one aspect of the invention, a detection server of the system detects at least one cue associated with a first media stream, and generates timing information from the detected cue. The timing information is signaled to the interface device. An advertisement server of the system generates a second media stream containing targeted information for delivery to the user interface device. The user interface device switches from the first stream to the second stream based on the timing information. The timing information may also be signaled by the detection server to the advertisement server, for use in controlling generation of the second stream.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which information about a medical procedure / test is received. The information about the medical procedure / test may include one or more codes or descriptions relevant to the patient and procedure / test that are used to process, identify or classify the medical procedure / test performed by a service provider. Upon receiving the information about the medical procedure / test, a query function is performed to retrieve from a database a list of data sources and / or support information that correspond to the information received. One or more documents are generated that contain the list of data sources and / or support information retrieved from the database.

The temporary medical orders and results transactions repository that intercepts Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic communications from Point “A” (source and / or creator) to Point “B” (electronic communication recipient, address, name and / or destination) to allows handling of outpatient medical-orders where Point “B” doesn't have to be defined at Point “A” (while the medical-order is being created); allowing creation of electronic orders at Point “A” without knowledge of where or who is Point “B” and delegating the designation of Point “B” to another party, other than the original medical-order creator. In this way, the choice of products and / or service providers is defined without medical order-creator intervention and / or influence; all WITHOUT the need of Unique IDs (UID, GUID or the like).The repository intercepts orders to be temporarily saved in the repository, either by business-rule, lack of destination information, or orders sent to the repository as destination,.Order-fulfillers “claim” (route to themselves, etc.) unclaimed orders, limited to their line-of-work, using patient and / or order-creator properties or parameters to identify and select the correct order based on search engine, common database modalities and master patient / person index technologies available freely, as open source, or a combination, and once orders have been delivered to the destination, orders are purged after a set of conditions, due dates or fulfillment indicators are reached.

The invention relates to a safe airplane approach method based on multisensor information fusion. In the method, space-time registration and fusion are carried out on a flight control radar, a ground surveillance radar, navigation localization information, infrared and visible light image information to obtain space and ground target (barrier, people, vehicle and airplane) information, automatically generate a safe airplane approach channel and display both the targets and safe approach channel information in the three-dimensional airport scene in a fused mode. The concrete implementation steps are as follows: firstly, employing a radar and a navigation positioning system to obtain airplane information and carrying out time-space registration and fusion to obtain three-dimensional airplane information; secondly, carrying out detection, tracking and behavior prediction on ground targets to obtain track information of ground targets by using the information obtained after registration and fusion of visible light and infrared images are performed; thirdly, reestablishing a three-dimensional airplane information scene; and finally, fusing the real time detected target information in the three-dimensional airplane information scene and establishing the safe airplane approach channel and displaying the channel in the three-dimensional airplane information scene in real time so as to provide decision-making information for flight control personnel.

Described are methods and apparatus for enhancing an information resource, such as a Web page, simultaneously residing in memory on a number of remote receivers. A content creator, (e.g., a program producer, broadcaster, affiliate, cable company or satellite provider), embeds a trigger in a data service channel of a broadcast signal. The trigger includes a resource identifier unique to the information resource and a script capable of modifying the information resource. The script might be a script or a segment of a script written in a conventional scripting language. Each receiver that includes the targeted information resource monitors the data service channel of the broadcast video signal for script-bearing triggers directed to that resource. If a receiver receives a script-bearing trigger directed to the resident resource, the receiver executes the script contained within the trigger to alter the resource and / or the displayed video defined by the resource.

Methods and apparatus for advertising according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a retargeting system, multiple publisher systems, at least one advertiser, and a user's computer. The retargeting system provides retargeting information to the advertiser for storage on the user computer. The retargeting information may comprise identifiers for publisher systems authorized for retargeting and an advertiser identifier. The retargeting information may also receive user behavior information from publisher system visited by the user after visiting the advertiser's web site. The retargeting system may then transmit an advertisement corresponding to the advertiser identifier to the visited publisher system for presentation via the user computer if the visited publisher system is an authorized publisher system.

The risk of inadequate hearing device provision for the hearing-impaired is to be reduced. To this end provision is made to determine the correct fit of the hearing device or the hearing device component in an auditory canal. To this end an acoustic measurement signal is output into the auditory canal. The measurement signal influenced in the auditory canal by the hearing device or the hearing device component is received and compared with a reference signal. Information about the fit of the hearing device is determined from the comparison. This information is transmitted with a status report to an external unit. Objective information about the fit of the hearing device can thus be obtained, particularly in the case of provision for children.

System and methods for creating structured or semi-structured representations of information extracted from unstructured text data sources are described. In some embodiments, without requiring a predefined target data structure, the methods identify the grammatical and semantic attributes and context information in a text content, and create object-properties association data as knowledge and information extracted from the unstructured data, and represent such information in a structured or semi-structured format to facilitate search and trend analysis. In some other embodiments, the methods identify the types of information contained in the unstructured data, and for a pre-defined target information type, the methods identify the context and content of the portion of the text that represents the target information type, and extract the text, attach a tag or label to the extracted text, and store or display the data in a database table format or xml format for further pattern and trend analysis. Applications of the present system and methods include effectively analyzing user-generated contents such as customer feedback, reviews, comments, technical support forum messages, resume or job description documents, and other types of text contents.

The invention discloses a SVM (Support Vector Machine)-based multi-sensor target tracking data fusion algorithm. According to target information acquired by sensors, a compact combination mode is adopted, the SVM serves as a middle layer, an environmental variable and a measurement variance normalized vector serve as input of the SVM, output of the SVM serves as trust of the sensor, a known training sample is used for offline training, real-time filter information is used for online estimation, and a fusion knowledge base performs track fusion through real-time weighting according to the obtained trust of the sensor. According to the SVM-based multi-sensor target tracking data fusion algorithm and the system thereof, the SVM principle is adopted, the algorithm complexity is low, the environmental variable and the measurement variance normalized vector are introduced, the biological robustness and the fault tolerance are strong, extension is easy, and the algorithm and the system thereof are applicable to the field of multi-sensor tracking.

The invention relates to the field of a video coding technology, and discloses a region of interest (ROI) video coding method and apparatus based on object detection. The video coding method comprises the following steps: performing the object detection on an original image, generating object information, and obtaining an object area and confidence; converting the object area into an ROI suitable for coding; according to coding quality grades and the confidence, calculating coding quantification parameters; and according to the corresponding coding quantification parameters, performing quantification coding on the ROI and a non-ROI. According to the invention, the ROI, the non-ROI and the corresponding confidence are obtained through the object detection, and the corresponding quantification parameters are selected for performing the quantification coding on the ROI and the non-ROI, such that the coding quality and stability of the ROI can be effectively ensured, at the same time under the condition that the coding quality of the ROI is not reduced, the compression code stream of a whole image can be decreased, and the video transmission and storage efficiency is improved.

A computer system comprises a first computer into which target information that an optical apparatus is to achieve is inputted and a second computer that determines the specification of a projection optical system based on the target information received from the first computer via a communication path with using a wave-front aberration amount, which the projection optical system is to satisfy, as a standard. Therefore, in the process of making the projection optical system, higher-order components of the aberration as well as lower-order components can be simultaneously corrected by adjusting the projection optical system based on the result of measuring the wave-front aberration to satisfy the specification, so that the making process becomes simpler. Furthermore, the target that the exposure apparatus is to achieve is securely achieved due to the projection optical system.