275 results about "Factor base" patented technology

A software based method and system providing secure and robust multifactor authentication of internet users using at least one factor each of 1) Something you know; 2) Something you have; and 3) Something you are—A physical characteristic of the user or his/her computer/device. This method of authenticating the identity of a user to determine access to a host includes providing an encrypted key string based on one or more static and dynamic factors corresponding the data instances of a user or his/her computer/device, one or more static and dynamic factors corresponding the data instances of the host, and user input factors; evaluating the factor-based data instances to determine if the user's identity is authenticated; and granting or restricting the user's access to the host based on authentication results. The provider generates a key string based on the inputs gathered/provided, time stamps the key, encrypts the key and sends it to the host. The host in turns decrypts the key string, evaluates the static factors against its database, and evaluates the dynamic factors based on pre-defined logic. The user is successfully authenticated if all validations are positive. Based on the authentication results the user is granted or restricted an access to the host resources. This method and system significantly reduces the chances of identity theft occurring from phishing, pharming, man-in-middle theft, spy-ware, and key stroke logger in everyday consumer e-commerce by deploying multifactor authentication based on static and dynamic factors stored/generated at multiple places, key encryption, key time stamping, and elimination of key strokes.

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for scored factor-based authentication. A verification service can receive an authentication request from a requestor, wherein the authentication request identifies a transaction. The verification service can determine a risk associated with the transaction, an authentication score based upon the risk, a plurality of groups of authentication factors, each of which the authentication score. The verification service can provide factor group data identifying the plurality of groups of authentication factors to the requestor.

By automatically compensating for unwanted lighting effects caused by varying ambient light sources, digital still images and video are made to appear more naturally realistic. A set of correction factors based upon an ascertained ambient lighting conditions, such as color temperature, provides for selectively color correcting only those pixels requiring correction. In this way, only those portions of a digital image having excessive color due to ambient light conditions are improved without affecting those portions of the digital image not requiring correction.

A method of scaling complexity of a video processing system including determining a power saving factor based on an operating parameter and adjusting processing of video information based on the power saving factor to reduce computation complexity. The operating parameter may include available power and/or available processing capacity. A method of complexity scalability for a video processing system using prioritized layered coding including determining a power saving factor based on one or more metrics, such as power capacity and/or available processing capacity, and reducing processing complexity of multiple prioritized coding functions in a predetermined order of priority based on the level of the power saving factor. A video processing system including a power management circuit which determines the power saving factor and a video encoder system which correspondingly adjusts computation complexity.

Systems for monitoring an inventory condition of objects based on captured images are described. An exemplary system includes at least one storage drawer, each storage drawer including a plurality of storage locations for storing objects, wherein each drawer is associated with an identifier with known color attributes; and an image sensing device configured to capture an image of one of the storage drawers along with the associated identifier. A data storage device of the system stores, for each storage drawer, information of the known color attributes of the associated identifier. A data processor of the system is configured to access information of the known color attributes of the identifier associated with the drawer corresponding to the captured image; determine color attributes of the identifier in the captured image; determine a correction factor based on the color attributes of the identifier in the captured image and the known color attributes of the identifier; and apply the correction factor to subsequent images captured by the image sensing device.

The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein are designed to identify fraudulent callers. A voice print of a call is created and compared to known voice prints to determine if it matches one or more of the known voice prints. The methods include a pre-processing step to separate speech from non-speech, selecting a number of elements that affect the voice print the most, and/or computing an adjustment factor based on the scores of each received voice print against known voice prints.

A system and method for creating a combined or mixed-energy image using both low- and high-energy CT data sets acquired using a dual-energy CT system. The low- and high-energy datasets are mixed using desired weighting factors to mimic a “single-energy” image. The low-energy dataset provides data with improved contrast enhancement, but with increased noise level. The high-energy dataset provides data with lower contrast enhancement, but with better noise properties. By combining the low- and high-energy datasets in accordance with the present method, the resulting mixed-energy images utilize the information of full dose of radiation used in the dual-energy scan. A plurality of weighting metrics can be selected, including patient size, dose partitioning, or image quality, to determine the desired weighting factors based on the weighting metrics. By selecting the proper weight factors, image noise can be reduced and/or the contrast to noise ratio can be increased in the mixed-energy image.

Management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes identifying a set of layers and a zoom factor based on a depth of a graphic to be displayed. The set of layers comprise symbols for objects corresponding to devices in a building managed by the management system. The method includes identifying a number of visible objects from the objects of the symbols in the identified set of layers based on the zoom factor. The method includes identifying a state of a device represented by a visual object in the number of visible objects from the management system communicably coupled with the devices. Additionally, the method includes generating a display for the depth. The display includes the identified set of layers, a symbol for each of the number of visible objects in the identified set of layers, and a graphical indication of the state of the device.

A controller and a method for use in a vehicle to limit noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) by controlling torque matching between a first power source and a second power source. A first and a second torque estimate are made for the first power source. The torque matching comprises calculating a correction factor based upon a comparison of the torque estimates made during steady-state operating conditions of the vehicle. The first torque estimate is based on operating parameters for the first power source and the second torque estimate is based on operating parameters for the second power source.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a TD (time division) frequency planning and scrambling code planning method based on an adjacent zone priority level, comprising: an adjacent cell priority level is generated through a zone adjacent factor, a zone factor and a zone direction factor based on the base station zone attribute according to the system technical scheme; and a TD main carrier frequency is distributed according to the generated adjacent zone priority level to ensure the minimality of the frequency interferences among zones; and then, a system assigns base scrambling code blocks and scrambling codes according to the adjacent zone priority level and the frequency so as to ensure the average minimization of the mutual interference of the frequency scrambling code among zones. According to the embodiment of the invention, the calculation method of the adjacent zone priority level is more reasonable, and the setting and switching process of the adjacent zone relationship is more reasonable. Furthermore, co-frequency encounter phenomena among the adjacent zones are avoided by adopting the scheme, so that the mutual correlation of the scrambling codes among the adjacent zones is minimal, and the maximal frequency resource and scrambling code resource utilization and the minimum frequency and scrambling code interferences among zones are ensured. And the network performance indexes such as call completing rate are improved, and the client perception quality is greatly improved.

A receiving method and a direct conversion receiver are provided. The receiver comprises a mixer (308) for mixing a received signal into a base band signal com-prising I and Q branches, and an A/D converter (316) for converting the base band signal into digital form, and a phase adjuster (318) for performing a frequency selective IQ phase error estimation and for correcting the digitised signal with frequency selective correction factors based on the error estimation.

The embodiments described in the instant application provide a system for generating checkpoints. In the described embodiments, while speculatively executing instructions with one or more checkpoints in use, upon detecting an occurrence of a predetermined operating condition or encountering a predetermined type of instruction, the system is configured to determine whether an additional checkpoint is to be generated by computing a factor based on one or more operating conditions of the processor. When the factor is greater than a predetermined value, the processor is configured to generate the additional checkpoint.

Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for reducing low frequency loss in a magnetic storage device. For example, some embodiments provide data processing circuits that include: an input circuit, a processing circuit, a data detection circuit, and a baseline compensation circuit. The input circuit receives a first data input and provides a second data input. The input circuit excludes low frequency energy exhibited in the first data input from the second data input. The processing circuit generates a representation of the second data input, and the data detection circuit generates a representation of the first data input based at least in part on the representation of the second data input. The baseline compensation circuit calculates an accumulated difference between the representation of the first data input and the representation of the second data input across a number of bit periods, and calculates a compensation factor based at least in part on the accumulated difference.

Methods, systems and content have been developed for increasing the bandwidth available to a bandwidth-constrained medium for transmitting digital video content. The content that is to be transmitted is compressed in proportion to the desirability of the content. The desirability of the content is determined by obtaining human-factors data indicative of whether a selected item of content is highly desirable. A desirability score derived from the data is assigned to the content. The desirability score determines the compression level. Feedback systems change the level of compression as the desirability of the content changes with time.

A defogged image denoising method based on transmissivity comprises the steps: (1) obtaining a defogged image containing noise and a transmissivity image, (2) roughly estimating an overall noise variance, (3) according to the noise variance confirmed in the step (2), confirming and calculating several parameters, (4) according to the parameters, searching similar pixels, using the transmissivity as a criterion, pre-screening the pixels in the searching range, and removing points dissimilar to pixels to be denoised, (5) constructing a correction factor based on the transmissivity and weakening pixel weight polluted by the noise, (6) calculating a gradient mean value difference of a whole image and a searching window, inputting a built parameter optimization model, and conducting adaptive correction on denoising parameters in different areas, (7) calculating a similarity weighted mean value of all the pixels in the searching range to replace the pixels to be denoised, and (8) outputting a denoising result after all the pixels are processed. The defogged image denoising method has the advantages of being high in detail protection degree, good in denoising effect, low in complexity and the like.