57 results about "Live feedback" patented technology

A method transmits a video over a network as a bit stream of packets. Real-time feedback information on conditions of the network is received while transmitting the packets. A probability of packet loss is based on the real-time feedback. Then, redundant packets are generated for selected packets of the bit stream if the probability of packet loss is greater than a predetermined threshold.

A radio station (1) transmits a radio programme using a VHF-FM singal which is received by a WAP-enabled mobile commnicaitons device (3). The signal includes radio datea service (RDS) data which includes the URL of a web-site associated with the radio station. The user accesses the web-page and participates in an opinion poll by casting a vote. The server logs the vote. The radio station counts the votes and announces the votes while the radio programme is still on air.

A live television show utilizing real-time input from a viewing audience is described herein. Specifically, the viewing audience is at home or at least not in the studio, and they use their cellular phones to input responses or make selections. The audience input is transmitted in real-time so that the producers of the television show are able to incorporate the results of the responses into the show. To permit an audience of millions to participate in real-time, a large random sample is utilized to provide real-time feedback. For example, the audience is able to determine the winner of a talent contest, which door is opened by a contestant, the results of a poll and affect the future direction of the telecast.

A method and system for enabling multiple users from different physical locations to access, observe, control and manipulate physical processes and devices over a computer network such as the Internet is disclosed. A user may visually monitor the physical set up and state of an experiment or environment by receiving live video and data, as well as directly control instrumentation while receiving live feedback regarding the input commands. Measurement data may be collected into a database and computational analysis can be generated and displayed as a physical process is being performed. An online interactive laboratory notebook is also provided that manages items such as collected data, laboratory parameters, “to do” lists, personal notes, etc.

A message transmitted from a mobile station to a base station in a wireless network providing broadcast multicast services includes a quality of service feature associated with multicast data transmissions broadcast from the base station to a plurality of mobile stations to provide real-time feedback to the base station and allow the mobile station to release or reject the broadcast multicast service.

A centralized irrigation system provides non-decision-making controllers in combination with a client server architecture that employs irrigation algorithms for monitoring and control. Live feedback means send information back to a server for use with sophisticated modeling capabilities to monitor exceptions to a planned control scheme, adjust control parameters, and provide a real-time update to system performance. This feedback is instantaneously routed from the server to monitoring and feedback client software connected to the server through a network and enables volume-based cycles and soaks of irrigation. Range-based control strategies determine a total volumetric water-holding capacity for a volume of soil and a range of desirable soil moisture. The system permits a shared-savings business model where the vendor provides a system and the customer only pays the vendor a portion of the savings obtained by using the system. It further permits rapidly deploying improved control systems to save water for a community.

A technique for efficiently processing resource allocation requests in an on-demand environment. When a user logs into a resource allocation request manager, various resource requirements entered are immediately sent to a remote resource manager to allow for dynamic, real-time feedback to the user who is entering the resource requirements as to any issues or concerns regarding the requested resource(s) or plug-in element(s), such as lack of availability. The user can thus reconfigure or otherwise modify the various resource requests based on this feedback to optimize the overall resource allocation request. This also allows an organization providing services such as computer hosting services to re-allocate resources in advance if a new resource request would exceed a service level agreement outlined in advance with a customer, thereby improving resource planning in a data center environment. In addition, the dynamic feedback on the new resource request that exceeds a service level agreement can be used to develop a new service level agreement or temporary service offer that addresses the unique resource condition.

The invention provides post-sale breakdown maintenance system and method thereof of a television and is suitable for the field of consumer electronics. The post-sale breakdown maintenance system comprises a television terminal with an IP network interface function, a post-sale maintenance server for maintaining a relevant information database of the television, a television information input terminal and a maintainer login terminal, wherein the television information input terminal and the maintainer login terminal are connected with the post-sale maintenance server through an IP network, and the television terminal comprises a television internal fault detection system for executing a fault detection function and a plurality of modules to be detected. Through detecting all modules of the television in a fixed time by the television internal fault detection system and feeding back corresponding information to a post-sale maintenance server through a network, the invention is convenient for post-sale maintainers to position faults quickly, and actively contacts users for door-to-door maintenance, thereby improving post-sale service quality and consciousness.

A method of adjusting focus and/or other image parameters in a remotely-operated image capturing system, such as a scanning electron microscope (SEM), is provided. The method minimizes transmission bandwidth and allows a remote user to perform adjustment quickly without requiring real-time feedback. In accordance with the method, rather than adjusting a knob or slider while viewing a real-time image as is done in prior art systems, the user selects among several still images representing a wide range of values of the adjustment in question. The user then selects from another set of images which represent a small subrange of values determined by the first choice. The process is repeated until the adjustment resolution of the instrument is reached or the user is satisfied. Adjustments, like objective lens alignment, which require “focus wobble” can also be made using this method. Since focus wobble is a periodic motion, it can be represented using a short loop of animation. This animation, when used in accordance with the present invention, can either be captured directly as a short burst of video or captured as a sequence of still images.

A system and method are provided for providing users of voice conferencing with indications of the quality perceived by other users of the voice conferencing system. A voice conferencing bridge measures the quality of the each user's channel, and provides real-time feedback to users whose channel quality is inadequate and that other users cannot hear them clearly. The feedback may be in the form of in-band or out-of-band signals, indicating for example that the user should speak louder, should mute while off-line, or warning the user that his or her channel may be muted automatically. The last option is particularly useful if a participant has temporarily left the conference and is playing music or hold tones while absent.

The invention discloses a long-distance ultrasonic diagnosis system comprising an ultrasonic image acquisition device, a video pick-up device, a communication network, a server management platform and a client, wherein the ultrasonic image acquisition device is used for acquiring the ultrasonic images of a patient, the spatial position of an ultrasonic probe and the pressure parameter of the ultrasonic probe; the video pick-up device is used for acquiring video images and voice information; the communication network is used for transmitting information acquired by the ultrasonic image acquisition device and the video pick-up device; the server management platform is used for storing and managing the information of patients, and receiving and storing the acquired data; and the client is used for accessing the server management platform, dynamically viewing data acquired by the ultrasonic image acquisition device and the video pick-up device in real time, and feeding back diagnostic information in real time. The invention enables basic medical institutions to realize data transmission through the communication network and the server management platform, so that ultrasonic diagnosis experts in a large hospital can perform long-distance ultrasonic consultation in real time through the client.

An audio appliance can include a microphone transducer configured to receive sound from an environment and to convert the received sound into an audio signal and a display. The audio appliance can include an audio analytics module configured to detect an audio-input impairment by analyzing the audio signal and output a detection signal identifying the audio-input impairment in real-time. The audio-input impairment can include, for example, a poor-intelligibility impairment, a microphone-occlusion impairment, a handling-noise impairment, a wind-noise impairment, or a distortion impairment. The audio appliance can also include an impairment module configured to identify and emit a user-perceptible alert corresponding to the identified audio-input impairment in real-time; and an interactive guidance module configured to present a suggested action to address the audio-input impairment in real-time. Related aspects also are described.

A sponsor of ads included in media content broadcast to devices by a media broadcast system for viewing by users can receive realtime feedback from users indicative of user evaluation of the presently broadcast and viewed ad. User devices anonymously acquire, process, analyze and broadcast user responses to broadcast ads viewed on the device, the responses preferably made with natural user gestures. User responses broadcast from the device are received by the media broadcast system. Ad sponsors may the customized the ad and/or future ads for the user based upon feedback and, if present, a user history profile. Broadcast ads can allow user to preselect desired ads by interacting with sponsor logos or icons presented on the device. Gesture data can be acquired, processed and broadcast to the media broadcast system for latent, incomplete, user responses, and for responses made during non-ad portions of the broadcast media.

New techniques for radiotherapy and radiosurgery are provided. In some aspects of the invention, multiple sources of radiation with characteristics that are projected to constructively interfere at a treatment target are provided. In other aspects, hardware directs multiple radiation sources from the same side of a treatment target, and focuses the initiation of substantial interference on a leading structure in the target. In other aspects, refractive models updated by live feedback are used to improve dosage distribution by, among other things, optimizing the number, length, superposition, overlap, angle and nature of radiation beams. In additional aspects, interstitial beacons and radiation path diversion structures are inserted to improve dosage distribution to a target and avoid critical neighboring structures. In particle therapy, regionally actuable external magnetic fields are also provided, to improve dosage accuracy and avoid collateral damage.

The invention discloses a control method for a transcoding system. The method comprises the following steps that: each transcoding server feeds running state information thereof back to a dispatch server in real time; the dispatch server distributes a transcoding task requested by a WEB terminal to the corresponding transcoding server according to the running state information; the transcoding task is the task of transcoding multimedia data into streaming format; the transcoding server encapsulates the transcoded part into a corresponding data block according to a time stamp in a transcoding process; and if a trigger request of a schedule display is received, the corresponding data blocks are played sequentially from the current data block according to the time stamp. In the invention, the distribution of the transcoding task is more efficient and reasonable and the current processing schedule and quality of the multimedia data are shown intuitively in the form of play menu, so that the system resources are saved and the user experience is improved.

The invention discloses a method and a system for synchronously watching videos and interacting , which are used for solving the problems that pictures of the same video watched by multiple users in real time are difficult to synchronize and the real-time interaction of the multiple users is difficult when the multiple users watch the video, and the method for synchronously watching videos and interacting in real time by the multiple users comprises the following steps that: the user creates a studio and sets a playing performance level and a playing priority guarantee strategy of the studio;a creator can invite other user terminals to join in the studio and set a playing video; an invited user terminal automatically adjusts the playing quality level of the terminal and automatically controls the elimination terminal; the creator sets different real-time synchronization instruction operation authorities for other user terminals; the user can control the synchronous playing of the video within the authority range; synchronous playing of terminal videos is accurately controlled through synchronous control and a real-time feedback algorithm; all synchronous users can perform real-time interaction in the form of characters, voices, videos, barrages or expressions.

The invention discloses a NetFlow sampling processing method based on abnormity feedback. The method includes that by taking the NetFlow principle as the basis, and by means of the analysis result output by an abnormity analysis server, the eigenvalues recorded by the NetFlow corresponding to the abnormal flow are extracted, a feeder performs the abnormity detection based on the statistic result, outputs the behavior characteristic parameters of a prevention strategy, transmits the parameters to a routing flow acquisition point and an acquisition server, the routing flow acquisition point adjusts the sampling rate of an abnormal flow package, and the acquisition server adjusts the flow reception weight for the routing flow acquisition point. The NetFlow sampling processing method makes full use of the analysis result of abnormal analysis, automatically adjusts the sampling rate of the routing flow acquisition point in real time, adjusts the acquisition strategy of the acquisition server, prevents the invalid flow acquisition, reduces the receiving pressure from the routing flow acquisition point and realizes the real-time feedback and utilization of the network flow state.

Methods, devices and systems are described for implementing interactive modification of spacing constraints of genealogical charts. The method includes displaying, on a display device of a computer system, a user interface for displaying one or more genealogical charts including one or more nodes. The user interface includes a horizontal slider and a vertical slider for manipulating the one or more geological charts' size. The one or more geological charts include page breaks representing a number of pages. The method further includes receiving, from an input device of the computer system, manipulation input for one or more of the vertical slider or the horizontal slider. Then, in response to receiving the manipulation input, providing real-time graphical feedback representing the manipulation in the display of the one or more genealogical charts. The real-time graphical feedback includes expanding and/or contracting the one or more genealogical charts such that the number of page for the one or more geological charts is automatically increased or decreased to accommodate the size of the one or more geological charts.

Considered herein is a real time wavefront sensor and system to provide live feedback for various vision correction procedures such as LRI/AK refinement, Laser Enhancement, and cataract/refractive surgery, designed to reduce or eliminate interference during an examination and/or a surgical operation. Wavefront sensor modules attached to microscopes can reduce the available working space or working distance for an operator or surgeon. Use of a negative lens, rather than a non-lens optical shield or window, can increase in the working distance for an operator or surgeon to, at least in part, compensate for any reduction in the working space as a result of the attachment of the wavefront sensor module to the microscope.

A method of collecting message advertisement points comprises the following steps: receiving the message with the advertisement sent by a message server; identifying the advertisement in the message and recording the advertisement point events in the advertisement in real-time; back-feeding the advertisement points to the advertisement server in real-time. Further, the invention provides a system and apparatus for collecting message advertisement points. The embodiment of the invention reports the advertisement points to the advertisement server in real-time, reduces the advertisement point statistical error caused by time difference. Further, the invention avoids the condition of not collecting the advertisement points caused by power off of the terminal user and collects the advertisement points in real-time and avoids the condition of not collecting the data in real-time when the user leaves the advertisement issuing place. The invention further avoids the condition of wasting the system source when the advertisement server executes polling points collection to all the terminals in the domain.

Techniques are described for improving the efficiency of dialog processing by prompting and processing user feedback substantially in real time. A dialog system receives speech input from a user and processes a first portion of the speech input to determine an initial discerned intent. The dialog system causes display of a visual indication of the initial discerned intent. The visual indication of the discerned intent is used to guide the dialog so that the user can correct or confirm the initial discerned intent in a natural fashion. If the initial discerned intent is inaccurate, the user can provide feedback correcting the dialog system, and the dialog system processes a second portion of the speech input to determine a modified discerned intent. Thus, the dialog system can use the feedback to correct misunderstandings on the fly.

A system and method for collecting real-time feedback from users. A processor based server receives receiving a request to access a wireless communications network from a client device located within a host environment. Each client device is associated with a user. The server transmits a questionnaire form to the client device associated with the user over the wireless communications network. The form comprises one or more questions to solicit a real-time feedback from the user. The server receives a user's response to the form from the client device associated with the user, provides access to the wireless network to the client device associated with the user, stores the user's response to the form in a database, and inhibits access to the wireless network to the client device if the user's response to the form are determined to be incomplete or non-responsive.