91 results about "Object registration" patented technology

Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Systems and methods for measuring overlay error in a video-based augmented reality enhanced surgical navigation system are presented. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention the system and method include providing a test object, creating a virtual object which is a computer model of the test object, registering the test object, capturing images of control points on the test object at various positions within an augmented reality system's measurement space, and extracting positions of control points on the test object from the captured images, calculating the positions of the control points in virtual image, and calculating the positional difference of positions of corresponding control points between the respective video and virtual images of the test object. The method and system can further assess if the overlay accuracy meets an acceptable standard. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention a method and system are provided to identify the various sources of error in such systems and assess their effects on system accuracy. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, after the accuracy of an AR system is determined, the AR system may be used as a tool to evaluate the accuracy of other processes in a given application, such as registration error.

A system for Semantic Simultaneous Tracking, Object Registration, and 3D Mapping (STORM) can maintain a world map made of static and dynamic objects rather than 3D clouds of points, and can learn in real time semantic properties of objects, such as their mobility in a certain environment. This semantic information can be used by a robot to improve its navigation and localization capabilities by relying more on static objects than on movable objects for estimating location and orientation.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for multi-dimensional registration printing. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an image module, a print module, and an object registration module. The image module stores a digital representation of an image. The print module prints the image on a multi-dimensional surface of an object. The object registration module controls a multi-dimensional registration of the multi-dimensional surface of the object in proximity to a print head in accordance with the image. The printing system may use a print ribbon that includes an infrared absorbent, a resin, or both.

Disclosed is a computer system capable of executing a version control program with a method within the version control program for generating an archive object for a file having an extension XXX. The method comprising the steps of receiving a request for constructing an extension object for an extension XXX from an application capable of creating extensions followed by determining if a MetaClass has been provided for the extension XXX, and if so associating the MetaClass with the extension XXX. Further, including receiving a request for creating an archive object for the extension XXX from a version control application; from a folder revision object in the version control program, determining if the extension XXX is registered with a folder archive object corresponding to the folder revision object, and if so determining if the MetaClass is associated with the extension XXX, and if so; calling an operation to create an object in the MetaClass determined in the preceding step for construction of an archive object for the extension XXX; and, returning the archive object constructed in the previous step as an archive object for the extension XXX.

An apparatus for providing a generic interface context model may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least defining a set of generic interfaces independent of any particular event scheme in which the generic interfaces include at least root node interfaces and provider node interfaces that support security classes, and enabling data providers and consumer applications to access a context model via the generic interfaces. The context model includes an object registry providing an object representation of properties of respective ones of the data providers.

The invention relates to the technical field of cloud databases, in particular to a virtual access management method of a heterogeneous database. According to the virtual access management method of the heterogeneous database, a data control processing framework which comprises a client, a front end and a server side and a functional unit which is oriented to the process and is based on components are provided, component access control management of a heterogeneous database system based on users, roles and the permission is introduced, the process of platforms, the process of resources, the process of channels and the like are accomplished, heterogeneous data source registration, virtual database object registration and virtual resource access are achieved, sharing access management of the heterogeneous database is accomplished, database access details and heterogeneous system multi-source performance are shielded, the uniform data standards and uniform access interfaces are provided, transparent access to data sources is supported, and sharing and uniform management of data resources of a plurality of independent service systems are achieved. The virtual access management method of the heterogeneous database solves the data sharing access problem caused by heterogeneous factors such as the server side, an operating system, a database management system and data structures, and can be used for virtual access management of the heterogeneous database.

The invention discloses a method for generating a virtual-real fusion image for stereo display. The method comprises the following steps: (1) utilizing a monocular RGB-D camera to acquire a depth map and a color map in real scene; (2) rebuilding a three-dimensional scene surface model and calculating a camera parameter; (3) mapping, thereby acquiring the depth map and the color map in a virtual viewpoint position; (4) finishing the three-dimensional registration of a virtual object, rendering for acquiring the depth map and the color map of the virtual object, and performing virtual-real fusion, thereby acquiring a virtual-real fusion content for stereo display. According to the method provided by the invention, the monocular RGB-D camera is used for shooting, the three-dimensional scene surface model is rebuilt frame by frame and the model is simultaneously used for tracking the camera and mapping the virtual viewpoint, so that higher camera tracking precision and virtual object registration precision can be acquired, the cavities appearing in the virtual viewpoint drawing technology based on the image can be effectively handled, the shielding judgment and collision detection for the virtual-real scene can be realized and a stereo display device can be utilized to acquire a vivid stereo display effect.

Described is a system and method including an auxiliary display platform having an interface (API) set that provides a way for client applications running on a main computer system to interact with various types of auxiliary displays, irrespective of differences between various device implementations. Interaction includes displaying content and notifications provided by the application, and returning events to the application. In one implementation the API set comprises a set of COM objects that register and perform configuration checks of a client application, send content and notifications to attached devices, and return events from the attached devices. The application may send data to an endpoint corresponding to a communication destination (e.g., a particular auxiliary device application) and a contract (e.g., a format) for the data. The platform and API set thus provide an abstraction layer for applications to provide information independent of any particular auxiliary device implementation.

An apparatus and method for establishing a communication connection between a first party and a second party using a secured communication connection object are provided. With the apparatus and method, a first party generates the secured communication connection object by setting parameters identifying and limiting the use of the secured communication connection object for establishing communication connections with the first party. These parameters are encapsulated with contact information for the first party such that the contact information is encrypted. The resulting secured communication connection object is then transmitted to a second party's communication device. When the second party wishes to establish a communication connection with the first party, the secured communication connection object is accessed in memory using information obtained from the object registry, the contact information is decrypted, and a communication unit is provided with the contact information for establishing a communication connection.

The invention provides an identity authentication method and apparatus. The method comprises the steps of obtaining an audio / video stream which is collected and is generated by a to-be-authenticated target object, judging whether a lip language and a voice in the audio / video stream meet consistency, and if the lip language and the voice meet the consistency, taking a voice content which is obtained by performing voice recognition on an audio stream in the audio / video stream as an object identifier of the target object; if the object identifier is included in pre-stored object registration information, obtaining a template physiological characteristic corresponding to the object identifier in the object registration information; performing physiological recognition on the audio / video stream to obtain a physiological characteristic of the target object; and comparing the physiological characteristic of the target object with the template physiological characteristic to obtain a comparison result, and if the comparison result meets an authentication condition, confirming that the target object passes through authentication. According to the identity authentication method and apparatus provided by the invention, the efficiency and the reliability of the identity authentication are improved.

A method for recognition and / or verification of authenticity of digital, and / or physical objects, comprising the steps of codebook training, object enrollment, and object verification, the latter consisting in object recognition and / or object authentication. The method uses two types of features, of codebooks, and of databases, which are specifically designed for identification, respectively authentication, the identification database and authentication database having different organizations. The invention is also directed to corresponding computer program means adapted to implement the proposed method, devices adapted for implementation of a method, as well as to applications which are particularly adapted for use of the proposed method.

A method and system for efficiently handling events occurring in an environment in a data processing system. The data processing system includes multiple environments and objects that may be used in different environments. Each object includes an action that is triggered in response to an event. An event manager object is created for handling events from different environments. Events are registered for the objects. An action is triggered using the event manager object in response to detecting an event occurring in the data processing system, wherein events occurring in an environment are efficiently handled.

The invention discloses an image privacy decision recommendation system and method under a social network on the basis of a privacy rule and perceptual Hash. The invention is characterized in that the system comprises a privacy object registration module, a privacy rule definition module and a privacy decision recommendation module, wherein the privacy object registration module provides a registration function of an object to be protected for a user; the privacy rule definition module defines a privacy security level for a to-be-protected objet of the user; and the privacy decision recommendation module identifies a to-be-uploaded object of the user, compares the to-be-uploaded object of the user with a protected object in a Hash fingerprint database and a privacy rule in a privacy rule base, and finally submits the privacy security level of the to-be-uploaded object to the privacy decision recommendation module of the user. The quick and convenient automatic calculation of the privacy level and decision recommendation can be realized, and the leakage risks of individuals and the families of the individual can be effectively lowered so as to greatly improve the protection safety of user individual image privacy.

The invention discloses an object registration center service cluster implementation method based on an object type and a Hash ring. The method comprises the following steps that a consistent Hash algorithm is selected to establish the Hash ring, the Hash values of all object registration center service nodes are calculated, so that the object registration center service nodes are mapped to the Hash ring, and an object registration center service cluster is formed. An object access request of a client end is calculated through the same consistent Hash algorithm, and the corresponding object registration center service node is selected to process the request according to the position where a calculation result is mapped to the Hash ring.

The invention discloses a sorting system combined with a self-guide transportation vehicle. The sorting system comprises an object registration module, an object sorting module, a self-moving object collecting box and a self-moving object collecting box guide dispatching system; the self-moving object collecting box includes an automatic guide transportation vehicle and an object collecting box; a guide device is arranged between delivery destinations of the automatic guide transportation vehicle and the object collecting box; the self-moving object collecting box guide dispatching system is connected with the automatic guide transportation vehicle; and the automatic guide transportation vehicle is connected with the object collecting box. All parts of the sorting system are matched for use, so that different collecting boxes can be sent to respective appointed places without erecting rails or conveying belts, and the conveying belt erecting cost is saved; and the sorting system also can be combined with an elevator automatic control system to realize transfloor automatic conveying without largely transforming a building structure and an elevator, so that the construction cost is reduced, the workload of workers is reduced, the object sorting efficiency is improved, and the application range is wide.

A method and an apparatus are provided for performing a function corresponding to a recognized user input through a touch screen. The method includes displaying a window of an application; displaying a setting menu of the application; receiving a selection for at least one item in the setting menu; recognizing an input object that performed the selection; registering the input object as an object for executing a function corresponding to the at least one item selected by the input object; detecting an input by the input object in the application window; and executing the function in response to the input by the input object.

In object registration and recognition based on a set of known templates, the tremendous set of possible transformations that may relate the template and an observed signature makes any detection and recognition problem ill-defined unless this variability is taken into account. The present invention estimates the deformation that transforms some pre-chosen representation of an object (template) into the current observation. The method employs a set of non-linear operators to replace a high dimensional problem by an equivalent linear problem, expressed in terms of the unknown parameters of the transformation model. The solution is applicable to any homeomorphic transformation regardless of its magnitude. In the special case where the transformation is affine the solution is shown to be exact.

An image processing apparatus by which in performing a setting as to a registration of application data to a database, a type of an object to be registered to the database can be selected. For example, if a photograph mode is selected, among vectorized data, a photographic object is registered to the database, and objects of the other attribute are defined as NULL and are registered to the database with respect to positional information thereof. Further, a registration period can be set for each attribute.

The invention provides a component-based large desktop software system framework and an implementation method. The framework comprises an object service management module, an object tree structure module, an object and object monitoring module, a service component, an object content description file, an event distribution module, a log recording module and an object IPC communication module, wherein the object service management module loads the service component, analyzes the object content description file specified by the component, stores an object pointer into an object container, and registers an object in an object tree structure; meanwhile, the event distribution module is entrusted to send a component enabling event signal; the service component receives the signal for requestingto execute a component enabling event function; if the object service management module uninstalls the service component, a component disabling event function is executed; the object tree structure module is used to operate and monitor all components of application software and objects of the components; and the IPC communication module is used for realizing cooperative work of different applications in a network, so that a large desktop software system can be effectively and flexibly developed.

Techniques for area of interest subscription are described herein. In some examples, a requestor, such as a client or other component, may be focused on a particular area of interest within a virtual space. A requestor may, for example, provide information indicating its area of interest within the virtual space. This information may then be used to determine one or more sub-spaces that are at least partially included within the area of interest. The requestor may then be subscribed to each sub-space that is at least partially included within the area of interest. When subscribed to a sub-space, object registration information indicating one or more objects that are registered to the sub-space may be received from one or more sub-space components that are associated with the sub-space.

A condition management callback system and method for use with a processor employing a hierarchical register consolidation structure. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a condition management structure, (2) a callback abstraction subsystem configured to register a callback for at least one element object in the condition management structure and store logically abstracted data associated with the callback and (3) an abstraction retrieval subsystem configured to employ the condition management structure to determine a condition of at least one status indicator in the condition management structure by traversing the hierarchical register consolidation structure, initiate the callback based on the condition and pass the logically abstracted data if the element object representing the status indicator has the callback registered.

A method and system for filtering a list of data elements within an object-oriented environment are disclosed. According to the present invention, a filter object is created that supports a filter method which discriminates data elements within an input list utilizing a filter criterion. A message is then sent to the filter object specifying an input list of data elements to be filtered. In response to receipt of the message, data elements within the specified input list are discriminated utilizing the filter criterion. In one embodiment, one or more filter objects are registered with a finder object such that a list of data elements satisfying a search criterion produced by the finder object are automatically furnished to the filter objects as an input list.

In a method for controlling peripheral apparatuses, as well as a correspondingly fashioned peripheral apparatus and an apparatus that is fashioned for use with peripheral apparatuses, as well as in a system, an object registry of a known CANopen interface is augmented by at least one license object through which the peripheral apparatus is controlled and in which control data for controlling the peripheral apparatus are stored and / or administered. A mechanism for access to a license object is provided.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a multi-window binding and dragging method and a multi-window binding and dragging system, which relate to the field of computer technology and are invented in order to simply and conveniently implement multi-window binding and dragging. The multi-window binding and dragging method includes the following steps: a window management class for managing windows is defined, and a window management class object for managing the positional relation between the windows is created; more than two windows are registered to the window management class object; after a message of the motion of one of the windows is received, a target position to which the window needs to move or an offset for which the window needs to move is transferred into the window management class; the window management class works out target positions of all the windows already registered to the window management class object, and all the windows already registered to the window management class object are moved from the current positions to the targets positions. The invention is applicable to the case of multi-window binding and dragging.

The invention provides an authentication method and device for an access control system. The method comprises the steps: carrying out voice recognition on an acquired audio stream, so as to obtain voice contents of the audio stream, wherein the audio stream is generated by a target object to be authenticated; taking the voice contents as object identification of the target object, and acquiring template voice print features corresponding to the object identification from pre-stored object registration information if the pre-stored object registration information comprises the object identification; carrying out voice print identification on the audio stream, so as to obtain voice print features of the audio stream; comparing the voice print features of the audio stream and the template voice print features, and confirming that the target object passes authentication if a comparison result meets authentication conditions. According to the method and the device, authentication flows of the access control system are simplified, and the efficiency of authentication is increased.

A mechanism for managing software modules in a VOIP service is discussed. A component management agent is provided for each VOIP software component in the VOIP environment. The component management agent registers with a session management agent which is in communication with a session management software facility. The component management agent accepts registrations from each software module in the component that it represents. The software module registrations indicate the type of objects that the software module supports. Subsequent managed object requests received from the session management facility are automatically directed to the appropriate software modules based on the registration information. Additionally, the session management agent and component management agent perform format conversions for the managed object requests where the session management facility and software modules are utilizing different object systems.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for multi-dimensional registration printing. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an image module, a print module, and an object registration module. The image module stores a digital representation of an image. The print module prints the image on a multi-dimensional surface of an object. The object registration module controls a multi-dimensional registration of the multi-dimensional surface of the object in proximity to a print head in accordance with the image. The printing system may use a print ribbon that includes an infrared absorbent, a resin, or both.

An application programming interface is provided in an object-oriented programming platform for developing applications. A method comprises registering a first object with a second object to observe one or more properties associated with the second object, the second object having a set of methods associated therewith and replacing a first implementation of a method in the set of methods associated with the second object with a second implementation of the method that automatically sends a notification to the first object. The observable objects need not explicitly invoke the observer notifications, avoiding writing of a large amount of code. These observer notifications need only be sent for objects that are actually being observed but are related objects, substantially reducing the performance overhead of needless invocations of the observer notifications without limiting binding between objects.